In the bond of marriage, God calls husbands to lovingly lead their wives and families spiritually. This does not mean domineering control, but humble service after the example of Christ. As the spiritual head, a husband should create an atmosphere in the home where God’s presence dwells richly through prayer, scripture reading, and intentional discipleship.
Husbands must remember that their wives are fellow heirs in God’s kingdom, not subordinates. They are called to honor their wives and treat them with understanding, never bitterness or pride. A husband’s leadership should cast a vision for passing on a godly legacy to future generations. He should have integrity, truthfulness, and moral courage for his children.
Spiritual leadership requires time invested in cultivating one’s own relationship with God. He must seek heavenly wisdom daily through God’s Word and Spirit. As he grows in grace, the husband gains a new capacity to gently shepherd the hearts of his family.
Above all, a godly husband leads by example. As he submits to Christ’s lordship, he becomes worthy of honor in his home. Dear friends, may we as husbands follow Christ’s footsteps in our mandate to provide spiritual leadership.
Ephesians 5:23
“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”
1 Corinthians 11:3
“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”
1 Peter 3:7
“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”
Colossians 3:19
“Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them”
Ephesians 5:28-29
“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”
1 Timothy 5:8
“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”
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”
Ephesians 5:33
“Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband”
1 Corinthians 7:3-5
“Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 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. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency”
Ephesians 6:4
“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord”
Proverbs 12:4
“A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones”
Proverbs 15:22
“Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established”
Ecclesiastes 9:9
“Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun”
1 Timothy 3:4
“One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity”
1 Corinthians 7:11
“But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife”
1 Peter 3:5-6
“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: 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”
1 Peter 4:11
“If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen”
