Torrey's Topical Textbook

Husbands

• Should have but one wife
  
  Genesis 2:24; Mark 10:6-8; 1 Corinthians 7:2-4
  
  
  


• Have authority over their wives
  
  Genesis 3:16; 1 Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 5:23
  
  
  


• DUTY OF, TO WIVES
  
  
  
  • To respect them
    
    1 Peter 3:7
  
  
  
  
  • To love them
    
    Ephesians 5:25-33; Colossians 3:19
  
  
  
  
  • To regard them as themselves
    
    Genesis 2:23; Matthew 19:5
  
  
  
  
  • To be faithful to them
    
    Proverbs 5:19; Malachi 2:14,15
  
  
  
  
  • To dwell with them for life
    
    Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:3-9
  
  
  
  
  • To comfort them
    
    1 Samuel 1:8
  
  
  
  
  • To consult with them
    
    Genesis 31:4-7
  
  
  
  
  • Not to leave them, though unbelieving
    
    1 Corinthians 7:11,12,14,16
  
  
  
  


• Duties of, not to interfere with their duties to Christ
  
  Luke 14:26; Matthew 19:29
  
  
  


• Good-Exemplified
  
  
  
  • Isaac
    
    Genesis 24:67
  
  
  
  
  • Elkanah
    
    1 Samuel 1:4,5
  
  
  
  


• Bad-Exemplified
  
  
  
  • Solomon
    
    1 Kings 11:1
  
  
  
  
  • Ahasuerus
    
    Esther 1:10,11