Topic

Wives

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Proverbs 31:10

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

Ephesians 5:22–33

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

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 21:19

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

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.

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.

Ephesians 5:22

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

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 →

Ephesians 5:25

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

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.

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.”

Proverbs 14:1

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

1 Timothy 2:11–15

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

1 Corinthians 7:2

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

Proverbs 18:22

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

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 →

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.

Proverbs 19:14

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

Titus 2:4

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

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.

Proverbs 12:4

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

Titus 2:4–5

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

Proverbs 19:13–14

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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;

Ephesians 5:22–24

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

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.”

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,

Mark 10:6–9

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — 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 4:8

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

Ephesians 5:21

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Proverbs 31:10–31

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

Proverbs 31:1–31

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — 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.

Proverbs 25:24

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

Colossians 3:18

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

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.

1 Timothy 3:11

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

Ephesians 4:32

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

Proverbs 31:11–12

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

Ephesians 5:22–23

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

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.

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 2:24

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

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 →

Luke 1:37

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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 →

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 1:27

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

1 Timothy 2:11–14

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

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 →

Matthew 19:4

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

1 Timothy 5:1–2

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

Philippians 4:6

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

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.

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.

1 Corinthians 7:12–14

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 31:12

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

Genesis 1:28

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.”

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.

Ephesians 5:1–33

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

2 Corinthians 6:14

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

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.

Malachi 2:16

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

1 Peter 3:8–9

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous, — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:7–10

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. — read the full passage →

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.

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 →

Ephesians 5:22–28

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

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.

1 Corinthians 7:3

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

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 →

1 Corinthians 6:9–11

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Leviticus 18:19–23

“‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. — 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 →

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 →

Luke 17:3–4

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — 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.

Deuteronomy 17:17

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

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 →

1 John 2:1–29

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

Colossians 1:1–29

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

1 Corinthians 7:32–35

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:29

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

1 Corinthians 7:15–16

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. — read the full passage →

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 31:11–15

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

1 John 4:7–8

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:5

For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

James 3:17–18

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. — read the full passage →

Amos 3:3

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

Proverbs 29:1–27

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy. — read the full passage →

Psalms 63:3–4

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. — read the full passage →

Titus 2:12

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

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 →

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