pleasing your husband
What does the Bible say about pleasing your husband? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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3A husband should fulfill his obligation to his wife, and a wife should also act similarly toward her husband. 4It is not the wife, but the husband, who has power over her body. But, similarly also, it is not the husband, but the wife, who has power over his body. 5So, do not fail in your obligations to one another, except perhaps by consent, for a limited time, so that you may empty yourselves for prayer. And then, return together again, lest Satan tempt you by means of your abstinence.
1Similarly also, wives should be subject to their husbands, so that, even if some do not believe the Word, they may benefit without the Word, through the behavior of these wives,
12She will repay him with good, and not evil, all the days of her life.
7Similarly, you husbands should live with them in accord with knowledge, bestowing honor on the female as the weaker vessel and as co-heirs of the life of grace, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
24Therefore, just as the Church is subject to Christ, so also should wives be subject to their husbands in all things.
4May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
1A wise woman builds up her household. But a foolish one will pull down with her own hands what has been built up.
16To the woman, he also said: “I will multiply your labors and your conceptions. In pain shall you give birth to sons, and you shall be under your husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over you.”
4A diligent woman is a crown to her husband. And she who acts with confusion as to which things are worthy is decay to his bones.
22Wives should be submissive to their husbands, as to the Lord.
12For I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to be in authority over a man, but to be in silence.
33Yet truly, each and every one of you should love his wife as himself. And a wife should fear her husband.
11The heart of her husband confides in her, and he will not be deprived of spoils.
4I have no greater grace than this, when I hear that my sons are walking in the truth.
5Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,
32But I would prefer you to be without worry. Whoever is without a wife is worried about the things of the Lord, as to how he may please God. 33But whoever is with a wife is worried about the things of the world, as to how he may please his wife. And so, he is divided. 34And the unmarried woman and the virgin think about the things that are of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit. But she who is married thinks about the things that are of the world, as to how she may please her husband. 35Furthermore, I am saying this for your own benefit, not in order to cast a snare over you, but toward whatever is honest and whatever may provide you with the ability to be without hindrance, so as to worship the Lord.