Being A Good Wife

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

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

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

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 church, and gave himself up for it;

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

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine: — read the full passage →

For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

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

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

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

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

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man:

Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

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

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

Whoseadorninglet it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man: — read the full passage →

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

But, because of fornications, 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, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

beholding your chaste behaviorcoupledwith fear.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

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

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

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

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

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

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that 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 the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man:

And 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 have not love, I am nothing.

But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

for it is God who worketh 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 our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.