In the biblical teaching on marriage, the role of husbands is one of loving leadership and selfless service. According to Ephesians, husbands are called to love their wives as Christ loves the church, sacrificing themselves for their well-being. The apostle Peter instructs husbands to live with their wives in an understanding way, honoring them as co-heirs in Christ, as seen in 1 Peter. Additionally, Colossians and 1 Timothy emphasize the importance of husbands providing for and caring for their families, with Ephesians highlighting the husband's position as head of the household, entrusted with spiritual leadership.
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Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.
Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.