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Duties Of A Wife

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1 Peter 3:1–6

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 →

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

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 →

Ephesians 5:33

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

1 Peter 3:1

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;

1 Peter 3:7

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.

Ephesians 5:22

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

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.

Colossians 3:18

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

1 Timothy 2:11–14

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

Ephesians 5:22–33

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

Matthew 19:9

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

1 Corinthians 7:2

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

Hebrews 13:4

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

1 Corinthians 11:7–12

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man. — read the full passage →

Titus 2:3–5

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 →

Titus 2:4

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

1 Timothy 3:2

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

1 Corinthians 7:13–16

The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:3–9

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:25

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

1 Timothy 5:8

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.

Colossians 3:19

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

Titus 2:4–5

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

1 Timothy 5:14

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

Titus 2:5

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

Ephesians 5:22–24

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

Ephesians 5:23

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.

Ephesians 6:4

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

1 Peter 3:4

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.

1 Peter 3:6

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.

Ephesians 5:1–33

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

Ephesians 5:28

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

Revelation 1:1

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,

Romans 7:2

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

1 Corinthians 11:8

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

1 Peter 3:1–22

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 →

Colossians 3:18–19

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Galatians 3:28

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.

Romans 7:2–3

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:21

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Matthew 19:5

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

Ephesians 5:24

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

1 Corinthians 7:3–5

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:1–7

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 →

Ephesians 5:22–25

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

Matthew 19:6

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

Matthew 19:4–6

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

Ephesians 5:31–33

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

Ephesians 5:31

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

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

Romans 5:8

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

1 Timothy 3:11

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

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

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 →

1 Corinthians 7:25–40

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:10–11

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:4

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

Matthew 5:32

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.

1 Peter 3:1–2

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 →

John 3:16

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.

1 Peter 3:3

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;

Titus 2:1–15

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

Ephesians 5:22–30

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

1 Corinthians 11:9

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

Colossians 3:18–4:1

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:28–29

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 11:1–34

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:28

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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