Colossians 3:19
NKJV—Husbands, love your wives and
do not be bitter toward them.
Amp—Husbands, love your wives—be
affectionate and sympathetic with them—
and do not be harsh or bitter or resentful
toward them.
Weymouth—Married men, be affectionate
to your wives, and do not treat them harshly.
1 Timothy 2:8
NKJV—Therefore I desire that the men
pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands,
without wrath and doubting.
Amp—I desire therefore that in every
place men should pray, without anger
or quarreling or resentment or doubt [in
their minds], lifting up holy hands.
Weymouth—So, then, I would have the
men in every place of worship pray, lifting
to God holy hands without anger or strife.
1 Timothy 5:8
NKJV—But if anyone does not provide
for his own, and especially for those of his
household, he has denied the faith and is
worse than an unbeliever.
Amp—If any one fails to provide for his
relatives, and especially for those of his
own family, he has disowned the faith [by
failing to accompany it with fruits], and is
worse than an unbeliever [who performs
his obligation in these matters].
Weymouth—If a man makes no provision
for his own relations, and especially for his
own household, he has disowned the faith
and is behaving worse than an unbeliever.
1 Peter 3:7
KJV—Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with
[your wives] according to knowledge, giving
honour unto the wife, as unto the
weaker vessel, and as being heirs together
of the grace of life; that your prayers be
not hindered.
NIV—Husbands, in the same way be
considerate as you live with your wives,
and treat them with respect as the weaker
partner and as heirs with you of the gracious
gift of life, so that nothing will hinder
your prayers.
Amp—In the same way you married men
should live considerately with [your wives],
with an intelligent recognition [of the marriage
relation], honoring the woman as
[physically] the weaker, but [realizing that
you] are joint heirs of the grace (God’s
unmerited favor) of life, in order that your
prayers may not be hindered and cut off.—
Otherwise you cannot pray effectively.
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
Proverbs 5:18-19
KJV—Let thy fountain be blessed: and
rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her
be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let
her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and
be thou ravished always with her love.
NIV—May your fountain be blessed, and
may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
A loving doe, a graceful deer—may her
breasts satisfy you always, may you ever
be captivated by her love.
Amp—Let your fountain—of human life—
be blessed [with the rewards of fidelity],
and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant
doe [tender, gentle, attractive]; let her
bosom satisfy you at all times; and always
be transported with delight in her love.
Proverbs 16:7
KJV—When a man’s ways please the
Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at
peace with him.
NIV—When a man’s ways are pleasing to
the Lord, he makes even his enemies live
at peace with him.
Proverbs 18:22
KJV—Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good
thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
NIV—He who finds a wife finds what is
good and receives favor from the Lord.
Amp—He who finds a [true] wife finds a
good thing, and obtains favor of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:3
NKJV—Let the husband render to his
wife the affection due her, and likewise
also the wife to her husband.
Amp—The husband should give to his
wife her conjugal rights—goodwill, kindness
and what is due her as his wife; and
likewise the wife to her husband.
Ephesians 5:25-33
KJV—Husbands, love your wives, even
as Christ also loved the church, and gave
himself for it; that he might sanctify and
cleanse it with the washing of water by the
word, that he might present it to himself a
glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle,
or any such thing; but that it should
be holy and without blemish.
So ought men to love their wives as their
own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth
himself. For no man ever yet hated his own
flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even
as the Lord the church: For we are members
of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
For this cause shall a man leave his
father and mother, and shall be joined unto
his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning
Christ and the church. Nevertheless let
every one of you in particular so love his
wife even as himself; and the wife see that
she reverence her husband.
NIV—Husbands, love your wives, just as
Christ loved the church and gave himself up
for her to make her holy, cleansing her by
the washing with water through the word,
and to present her to himself as a radiant
church, without stain or wrinkle or any
other blemish, but holy and blameless.
In this same way, husbands ought to
love their wives as their own bodies. He who
loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one
ever hated his own body, but he feeds and
cares for it, just as Christ does the church—
for we are members of his body.
“For this reason a man will leave his
father and mother and be united to his
wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
This is a profound mystery—but I am talking
about Christ and the church. However,
each one of you also must love his wife
as he loves himself, and the wife must respect
her husband.
Amp—Husbands, love your wives, as Christ
loved the church and gave Himself up for
her, so that He might sanctify her, having
cleansed her by the washing of water with
the Word, that He might present the church
to Himself in glorious splendor, without
spot or wrinkle or any such things—that she
might be holy and faultless.
Even so husbands should love their
wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies.
He who loves his own wife loves himself. For
no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes
and carefully protects and cherishes
it, as Christ does the church, because we are
members (parts) of His body.
For this reason a man shall leave his
father and his mother and shall be joined
to his wife, and the two shall become
one flesh. This mystery is very great, but
I speak concerning [the relation of] Christ
and the church. However, let each man of
you (without exception) love his wife as
[being in a sense] his very own self; and
let the wife see that she respects and reverences
her husband—that she notices
him, regards him, honors him, prefers
him, venerates and esteems
him; and that she defers to him, praises him,
and loves and admires him exceedingly.
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
Ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands….
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with
them according to knowledge, giving honour
unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and
as being heirs together of the grace of life; that
your prayers be not hindered (1 Peter 3:1, 7).
The Word says that husbands are to honor
their wives, treating them with care and kindness
and tenderness.
It also says for wives to honor their own husbands
by submitting to them. That does not mean to be
under their thumb and to follow their orders. That
is not being submissive. That is being dominated.
Wives are supposed to submit to their husbands’
honoring of them.
First Peter 3:7 says that husbands should dwell
with their wives “according to knowledge.” This
knowledge is knowledge of God’s Word. Husbands
and wives are to dwell with each other in honor as
God has explained it in His Word, not according to
some religious tradition.
For too long, women have been relegated to second-
class citizenship in the kingdom of God simply
because proud, foolish men have not understood
what the New Testament really teaches about honor.
In their ignorance and arrogance, such men have
built dishonorable religious systems that bind up the
handmaidens of the Lord.
Some of these men are in for a big surprise. The
husband will find himself carrying around his wife’s
Bible for her while she preaches the gospel and wins
souls by the millions.
Hopefully, many of us men in the Church will
begin to realize that our wives are just as much God’s
children as we are. We will start treating them with
the honor God prescribes in His Word.
The Bible teaches that wives are to be submissive
to their husbands, and that husbands are to treat their
wives with honor as if they were weaker vessels, treating
them with tenderness and love. This does not
mean, however, that women are weaker vessels. Men
and women are each superior to the other in certain
ways. God made them that way. Both are made in His
image. “God created man in his own image, in the
image of God created he him; male and female created
he them” (Genesis 1:27).
That means God is both male and female.
Every word in the Hebrew language has either
male or female gender—except one! Jehovah. Jehovah
is the only word that has both male and female gender;
so God is as much female as He is male.
When God made Adam, Adam was both male
and female. God separated the female part from
Adam and deposited it in Eve. Then He brought
them back together to honor one another. Where
a man is weak, the woman is strong. Where the
woman is weak, the man is strong. United, the two
of them should have no weaknesses. They should
honor and reverence one another as heirs together of
the grace of life.
Then together husbands and wives are to submit
to God by honoring Him.
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
