30 Bible Verses about Husband And Wife

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1 Corinthians 7:4

the wife has not the right of her own person, but the husband: and so likewise the husband has not the right of his own person, but the wife.

1 Corinthians 14:35

and if they desire to have information about any point, let them consult their husbands at home: for it does not become women to ask questions in the church.

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Ephesians 5:25-32

You husband, love your spouse, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his life for her: to sanctify and purify her by the ablution of his word, that he himself might make her appear illustrious to his own eye, a church without spot, or any thing like a defect; so as to be holy and irreprehensible. read more.
in like manner ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies: "he that loves his wife, loveth himself." no man was ever yet averse to his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as the Lord doth the church: of which we are the several parts constituting his body. the scripture says, "for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and they two shall be as one." these words contain a very mystical sense, I mean in reference to Christ and the church.

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