Topic

Wife

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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.

Proverbs 18:22

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

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 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.

Proverbs 31:10

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Proverbs 19:14

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

Ephesians 5:25

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

Ephesians 5:22

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

Proverbs 12:4

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Colossians 3:19

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

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.”

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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.

1 Corinthians 7:2

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

Ephesians 5:22–24

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

Proverbs 31:10–31

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

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 4:8

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Colossians 3:18

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

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 5:22–33

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

Titus 2:4–5

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

Proverbs 14:1

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

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.

Genesis 2:18

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Titus 2:4

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

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.

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,

Proverbs 31:1–31

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

1 Timothy 3:11

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

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.

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.

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.

Mark 10:6–9

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

Ephesians 5:28–33

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 →

Proverbs 31:11–12

The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain. — read the full passage →

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.

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.

Colossians 3:18–19

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

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 →

Proverbs 25:24

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

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 →

Genesis 2:18–24

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:3

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

Proverbs 21:19

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

1 Corinthians 13:13

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Ephesians 5:1–33

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

1 Peter 3:1–5

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 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.

John 3:16–17

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. — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 24:5

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

Mark 10:9

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

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?’

Proverbs 31:16

She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.

Colossians 3:14

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Ephesians 5:21

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Genesis 24:67

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Ephesians 4:2–3

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:24

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

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.”

Genesis 1:26

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 sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Romans 8:28

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Proverbs 5:18–19

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — 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.

Proverbs 31:30

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Luke 16:18

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 13:4–8

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — 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,

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Luke 1:37

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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 7:3–4

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

Proverbs 21:9

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

1 Timothy 2:11–14

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

Ephesians 6:4

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

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 →

Genesis 1:27–28

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:17

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

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 →

1 Corinthians 7:5

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Romans 13:8

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Colossians 4:1–18

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

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;

Proverbs 31:11

The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.

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 →

Proverbs 31:26

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

Proverbs 31:17

She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.

Colossians 1:1–29

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

Ecclesiastes 4:12

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Ephesians 4:32

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

1 Peter 3:2

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

Proverbs 30:1–33

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the oracle: the man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal: — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:22–24

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. — read the full passage →

Psalms 37:4

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Proverbs 30:18–19

“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →

Proverbs 18:1–24

An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:4–7

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

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