Here are 100 Bible verses about head of household, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.
1 Corinthians 11:3 KJV
3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Peter 3:7 KJV
7 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.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Genesis 3:16 KJV
16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 5:25 KJV
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 5:23 KJV
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 5:8 KJV
8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 6:4 KJV
4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 5:22 KJV
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Colossians 3:21 KJV
21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 6:1 KJV
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 5:22-24 KJV
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Proverbs 31:12 KJV
12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Genesis 2:18 KJV
18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 2:11-15 KJV
11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. 15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Colossians 3:18-19 KJV
18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Colossians 3:19 KJV
19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 5:33 KJV
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Corinthians 7:1-40 KJV
1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 5:28 KJV
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 2:12 KJV
12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Colossians 3:18 KJV
18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Proverbs 31:1-31 KJV
1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. 2 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows? 3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: 5 Lest …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
John 3:16 KJV
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Revelation 1:1 KJV
1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Joshua 24:15 KJV
15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 3:4 KJV
4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Matthew 19:5-6 KJV
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Proverbs 22:6 KJV
6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Peter 3:1 KJV
1 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;
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 5:1-33 KJV
1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; 2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. 3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; 4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Thessalonians 2:11-12 KJV
11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, 12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 1:22 KJV
22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Galatians 3:28 KJV
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Titus 2:5 KJV
5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Colossians 1:18 KJV
18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 5:21 KJV
21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Acts 16:31 KJV
31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Genesis 3:1-24 KJV
1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Colossians 3:20 KJV
20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 3:12 KJV
12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Corinthians 14:34 KJV
34 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.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 5:24 KJV
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Peter 3:1-2 KJV
1 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; 2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 4:15 KJV
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Genesis 2:24 KJV
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 3:1-16 KJV
1 This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; 4 One that ruleth well his own house, …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Romans 5:8 KJV
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Colossians 3:1-25 KJV
1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Peter 3:1-6 KJV
1 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; 2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. 3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4 But let …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Corinthians 11:1-34 KJV
1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. 3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 6:1-3 KJV
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; 3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Corinthians 11:3-10 KJV
3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. 5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. 6 For …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Peter 3:5-6 KJV
5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: 6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 5:14 KJV
14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Genesis 18:19 KJV
19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Acts 20:28 KJV
28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
John 3:16-17 KJV
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 1:22-23 KJV
22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 2:13 KJV
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 5:21-24 KJV
21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 3:4-5 KJV
4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; 5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 5:25-26 KJV
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Titus 1:5-9 KJV
5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. 7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Acts 10:1-48 KJV
1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, 2 A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. 3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. 4 And when …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Genesis 2:1-25 KJV
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. 4 These are the generations …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 5:4 KJV
4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 2:11-12 KJV
11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Corinthians 1:10 KJV
10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 2:1-15 KJV
1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Corinthians 11:8-10 KJV
8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. 9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Revelation 1:1-20 KJV
1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: 2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. 3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
2 Timothy 1:5 KJV
5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Romans 2:4 KJV
4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 5:26-27 KJV
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 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.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Corinthians 14:37 KJV
37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
John 14:6 KJV
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Proverbs 31:28-31 KJV
28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. 29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. 30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 John 4:19 KJV
19 We love him, because he first loved us.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 3:2 KJV
2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Acts 5:29 KJV
29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Hebrews 13:17 KJV
17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Malachi 2:14 KJV
14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 2:15 KJV
15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Titus 2:3-5 KJV
3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ecclesiastes 3:11 KJV
11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 3:15 KJV
15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Matthew 21:42 KJV
42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Corinthians 14:1-40 KJV
1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. 2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. 3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. 4 He that speaketh in an unknown …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Corinthians 14:34-35 KJV
34 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. 35 And 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.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Leviticus 20:13 KJV
13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 3:11 KJV
11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 2:14 KJV
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 5:28-29 KJV
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Corinthians 11:1-16 KJV
1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. 3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Titus 1:6 KJV
6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Acts 16:32 KJV
32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Corinthians 7:4 KJV
4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Proverbs 31:25 KJV
25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Corinthians 7:16 KJV
16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Corinthians 7:3 KJV
3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.