Good Wife

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

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

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

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

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.

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

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

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

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

Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.

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;

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

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

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; And the law of kindness is on her tongue. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

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 →

The heart of her husband trusteth in her, And he shall have no lack of gain. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

The heart of her husband trusteth in her, And he shall have no lack of gain.

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

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.

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 →

Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.

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.

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

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

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

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

Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; Andthe fruit of the womb ishisreward.

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

Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; Buta woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

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 →

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

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 →

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.

She doeth him good and not evil All the days of her life.

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

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

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;

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

Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land.

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.

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

She considereth a field, and buyeth it; With the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

She girdeth her loins with strength, And maketh strong her arms.

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.

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

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

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

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

She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; Yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

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.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Her children rise up, and call her blessed; Her husbandalso, and he praiseth her, saying:

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, And rageth against all sound wisdom. — read the full passage →

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

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

beholding your chaste behaviorcoupledwith fear.

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

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

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

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; And the law of kindness is on her tongue.

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

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.

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

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.

And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

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

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

Delight thyself also in Jehovah; And he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — read the full passage →

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.

She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness.

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh; the oracle. The man saith unto Ithiel, unto Ithiel and Ucal: — read the full passage →

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

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

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

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

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 →

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

She maketh for herself carpets of tapestry; Her clothing is fine linen and purple.

Give her of the fruit of her hands; And let her works praise her in the gates.

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;