HUSBAND

Passages on this topic · 87

• Genesis 2:23

  The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

• Genesis 2:24

  Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

• Genesis 24:67

  Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

• Numbers 5:11

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 5:12

  “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,

• Numbers 5:13

  and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in the act;

• Numbers 5:14

  and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn’t defiled:

• Numbers 5:15

  then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.

• Numbers 5:16

  The priest shall bring her near, and set her before Yahweh;

• Numbers 5:17

  and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.

• Numbers 5:18

  The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

• Numbers 5:19

  The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

• Numbers 5:20

  But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:”

• Numbers 5:21

  then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

• Numbers 5:22

  and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”

• Numbers 5:23

  “‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.

• Numbers 5:24

  He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

• Numbers 5:25

  The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar.

• Numbers 5:26

  The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.

• Numbers 5:27

  When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.

• Numbers 5:28

  If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.

• Numbers 5:29

  “‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;

• Numbers 5:30

  or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.

• Numbers 5:31

  The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’”

• Deuteronomy 22:13

  If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,

• Deuteronomy 22:14

  accuses her of shameful things, and gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity”;

• Deuteronomy 22:15

  then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

• Deuteronomy 22:16

  The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her.

• Deuteronomy 22:17

  Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

• Deuteronomy 22:18

  The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.

• Deuteronomy 22:19

  They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.

• Deuteronomy 22:20

  But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;

• Deuteronomy 22:21

  then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Deuteronomy 24:5

  When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

• Esther 1:10

  On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

• Esther 1:11

  to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful.

• Esther 1:12

  But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

• Esther 1:13

  Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;

• Esther 1:14

  and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),

• Esther 1:15

  “What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?”

• Esther 1:16

  Memucan answered before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.

• Esther 1:17

  For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’

• Esther 1:18

  Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.

• Esther 1:19

  “If it please the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.

• Esther 1:20

  When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.”

• Esther 1:21

  This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

• Esther 1:22

  for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people.

• Proverbs 5:15

  Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

• Proverbs 5:16

  Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

• Proverbs 5:17

  Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

• Proverbs 5:18

  Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

• Proverbs 5:19

  A loving doe and a graceful deer — let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

• Ecclesiastes 9:9

  Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

• Isaiah 54:5

  For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.

• Isaiah 54:6

  For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.

• Jeremiah 3:14

  “Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

• Jeremiah 31:32

  not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says Yahweh.

• Hosea 2:19

  I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

• Hosea 2:20

  I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.

• Malachi 2:14

  Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

• Malachi 2:15

  Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

• Malachi 2:16

  For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

• Matthew 1:19

  Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

• Matthew 19:5

  and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

• Mark 10:7

  For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

• 1 Corinthians 7:3

  Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.

• 1 Corinthians 7:5

  Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

• 1 Corinthians 7:14

  For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

• 1 Corinthians 7:16

  For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

• 1 Corinthians 7:33

  but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

• 1 Corinthians 11:3

  But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

• Ephesians 5:22

  Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

• Ephesians 5:23

  For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

• Ephesians 5:24

  But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

• Ephesians 5:25

  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

• Ephesians 5:26

  that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

• Ephesians 5:27

  that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

• Ephesians 5:28

  Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

• Ephesians 5:29

  For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

• Ephesians 5:30

  because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

• Ephesians 5:31

  “For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

• Ephesians 5:32

  This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

• Ephesians 5:33

  Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

• Colossians 3:18

  Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

• Colossians 3:19

  Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

• 1 Timothy 5:8

  But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

• 1 Peter 3:7

  You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.