Being A Good Wife

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

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.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →

For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

For man is not from woman, but woman from man; — read the full passage →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

For man is not from woman, but woman from man;

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.