Topic

Being A Wife

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Ephesians 5:22

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

Proverbs 31:10–31

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:1

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;

Genesis 2:18

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

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 Corinthians 7:1–40

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

Proverbs 31:1–31

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 25:24

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

1 Peter 3:7

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.

Titus 2:3–5

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 →

Ephesians 5:23

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.

Genesis 1:26–28

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:4

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.

1 Peter 3:1–22

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 →

Titus 2:1–15

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

2 Timothy 2:15

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

Colossians 3:18

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

Philippians 4:19

And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 5:24

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

Ephesians 5:22–23

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

1 Corinthians 10:31

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Romans 12:2

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Proverbs 12:4

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Genesis 3:16

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Genesis 2:18–25

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. — read the full passage →

Revelation 19:7

Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

James 1:1–27

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →

Titus 2:4

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

Colossians 3:19

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

Philippians 2:1–30

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:25

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

Ephesians 5:21

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Ephesians 5:1–33

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

Galatians 3:28

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.

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

1 Corinthians 7:5

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.

1 Corinthians 7:2

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

1 Corinthians 7:1–5

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

Matthew 25:6

But at midnight there is a cry, Behold, the bridegroom! Come ye forth to meet him.

Matthew 19:8–9

He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so. — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:8

He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so.

Matthew 19:4–6

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 →

Proverbs 27:15

A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:

1 Samuel 25:42

And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

Genesis 2:23

And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Genesis 2:20

And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him.

Jeremiah 3:8

And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot.

2 Samuel 1:1–27

And it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

Genesis 49:9

Judah is a lion’s whelp; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?

Genesis 3:1–24

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden? — read the full passage →

Genesis 1:1–31

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

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