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Duties Of A Wife

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1 Peter 3:1–6

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:33

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

1 Peter 3:1

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

1 Peter 3:7

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

Ephesians 5:22

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

1 Corinthians 11:3

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Colossians 3:18

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

1 Timothy 2:11–14

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

Ephesians 5:22–33

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:9

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

1 Corinthians 7:2

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

Hebrews 13:4

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

1 Corinthians 11:7–12

for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man, — read the full passage →

Titus 2:3–5

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, — read the full passage →

Titus 2:4

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

1 Timothy 3:2

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

1 Corinthians 7:13–16

and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:3–9

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:25

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

1 Timothy 5:8

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

Colossians 3:19

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

Titus 2:4–5

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children, — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 5:14

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

Titus 2:5

sober, pure, keepers of <FI>their own<Fi> houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

Ephesians 5:22–24

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:23

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

Ephesians 6:4

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

1 Peter 3:4

but--the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

1 Peter 3:6

as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him `sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.

Ephesians 5:1–33

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:28

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

Revelation 1:1

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

Romans 7:2

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

1 Corinthians 11:8

for a man is not of a woman, but a woman <FI>is<Fi> of a man,

1 Peter 3:1–22

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:18–19

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

Galatians 3:28

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

Romans 7:2–3

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:21

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

John 15:13

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

Matthew 19:5

and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

Ephesians 5:24

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

1 Corinthians 7:3–5

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:1–7

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:22–25

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:6

so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

Matthew 19:4–6

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:31–33

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;' — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:31

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

1 Corinthians 7:28

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

Romans 5:8

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

1 Timothy 3:11

Women--in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:25–40

And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful: — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:10–11

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:4

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them,

Matthew 5:32

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

1 Peter 3:1–2

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

John 3:16

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

1 Peter 3:3

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

Titus 2:1–15

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:22–30

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 11:9

for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;

Colossians 3:18–4:1

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:28–29

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 11:1–34

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:28

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

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