Wifely Duties

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

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

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 →

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

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

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 →

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.”

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

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

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

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

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;

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

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

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?’

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 →

If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”

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 →

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices! — read the full passage →

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

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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.

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

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

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

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

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

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

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

She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.

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

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

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

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

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;

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

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid; I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people does know that you are a worthy woman.

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.

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

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

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

She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.

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

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

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

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

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’

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 →

Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

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.”

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

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

She makes linen garments and sells them, and delivers sashes to the merchant.

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.

She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands.

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

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

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.

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

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

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

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

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, — read the full passage →

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

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

“Many women do noble things, but you excel them all.”

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

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 →

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 →

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

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.

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

She lays her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

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