Bible Verses About Wife Submitting To Husband

Dear friends, now let’s look at what the Bible teaches about a wife’s role and submission to her husband.

A wife has a sacred duty to respect and support her husband’s leadership in the home. Yet this submission goes both ways—the husband must also honor his wife and treat her as an equal heir in God’s kingdom. Biblically, the marriage union reflects Christ’s relationship with the church.

The Bible advises that wives submit to their husbands as the church submits to Christ. This means recognizing the husband’s responsibility to lead the household and trusting his Spirit-guided judgment. However, a husband must exercise this authority carefully and selflessly. He should love his wife sacrificially, protecting and caring for her needs before his own.

At times disagreements will occur. A wife can humbly discuss her perspectives, yet the husband has the duty to make final decisions. Even when a wife may have hesitation, she can pray for willingness to yield. This allows the marriage to function harmoniously based on God’s design.

The Bible reminds husbands not to abuse authority by disregarding disempowering their wives. Husbands and wives should cultivate mutual love and respect. Though the wife yields final authority to the husband, they share equal value before Christ. God blesses marriages where both spouses embrace their respective duties.

What does the Bible say about a wife’s role?

Genesis 2:18
“The Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him”

Proverbs 31:10-12
“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good not evil all the days of her life”

Proverbs 31:26-27
“She openeth her mouth with wisdom; in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, eateth not the bread of idleness”

1 Corinthians 11:9
“Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man”

Titus 2:4-5
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed”

What does it mean for a wife to submit to her husband?

Ephesians 5:22-24
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing”

Colossians 3:18
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord”

1 Peter 3:1-2
“Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear”

1 Corinthians 14:34-35
“Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. If they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church”

Bible verses about mutual submission in marriage

Ephesians 5:21
“Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God”

Philippians 2:3-4
“Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others”

Galatians 5:13
“For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another”

1 Peter 5:5
“Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, giveth grace to the humble”

Is a wife obligated to obey her husband? What are the limits?

Ephesians 5:33
“Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; the wife see that she reverence her husband”

1 Corinthians 7:3-5
“Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting prayer; come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency”

1 Corinthians 7:10-11
“Unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: let not the husband put away his wife”

1 Corinthians 7:39
“The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord”

How should a husband lead and care for his wife? Bible verses

Ephesians 5:25
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, gave himself for it”

Colossians 3:19
“Husbands, love your wives, be not bitter against them”

1 Peter 3:7
“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered”

1 Timothy 5:8
“But if any provide not for his own, specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, is worse than an infidel”

Proverbs 19:14
“House riches are the inheritance of fathers: a prudent wife is from the Lord”