Bible verses about "wives" | CLV

Genesis 3:16

16 And to the woman He says, "Multiplying, yea, multiplying am I your grief and the groaning of your pregnancy. In grief shall you bear sons. "Yet by your husband is your restoration, and he shall rule over you.

Proverbs 14:1

1 A woman's wisdom builds her house, Yet the foolish one pulls it down with her hands."

Proverbs 19:13-14

13 A stupid son is woe to his father, And a quarrelsome wife like a persistent leaking." 14 A house and wealth are an allotment from fathers, Yet from Yahweh comes an intelligent wife."

Matthew 5:28

28 Yet I am saying to you that every man looking at a woman to lust for her already commits adultery with her in his heart.

Ephesians 5:33

33 Moreover, you also individually, each be loving his own wife thus, as himself, yet that the wife may be fearing the husband."

1 Corinthians 6:18

18 Flee from prostitution. The penalty of every sin, whatsoever a man should be doing, is outside of the body, yet he who is committing prostitution is sinning against his own body."

Ephesians 5:31

31 For this "a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh."

Ephesians 5:21

21 to our God and Father, being subject to one another in the fear of Christ."

Hebrews 13:4

4 May matrimony be honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, for paramours and adulterers will God be judging."

1 Peter 3:7

7 Husbands, likewise, may do it by making a home with them according to knowledge, awarding honor to the feminine as to the weaker vessel, as to those who are also joint enjoyers of the allotment of the varied grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered."

Ephesians 5:22

22 Let the wives be subject to their own husbands, as to the Lord,

Ephesians 5:28

28 Thus, the husbands also ought to be loving their own wives as their own bodies. He who is loving his own wife is loving himself."

Colossians 3:19

19 Husbands, love your own wives and be not bitter toward them."

Ephesians 5:25

25 Husbands, be loving your wives according as Christ also loves the ecclesia, and gives Himself up for its sake,

1 Peter 3:1-5

1 Likewise wives may do it by being subject to their own husbands, that, if any are stubborn also, as to the word, they will be gained without a word, through the behavior of their wives, 2 being spectators of your pure behavior in fear, 3 whose adornment, let it not be the outside, of braiding aught into the hair and of decking with gold, or putting on of garments, 4 but the hidden human of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a meek and quiet spirit, which, in God's sight, is costly." 5 For thus once the holy women also, whose expectation was in God, adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands"

1 Timothy 2:11-15

11 Let a woman be learning in quietness with all subjection. 12 Now I am not permitting a woman to be teaching nor yet to be domineering over a man,, but to be in quietness" 13 (for Adam was first molded, thereafter Eve, 14 and Adam was not seduced, yet the woman, being deluded, has come to be in the transgression)." 15 Yet she shall be saved through the child bearing, if ever they should be remaining in faith and love and holiness with sanity."

Proverbs 21:19

19 It is better to dwell in a wilderness land Than with a quarrelsome and vexatious wife.

Proverbs 31:10

10 A wife of ability, who can find? Far more than rubies is her worth."

Ephesians 5:22-33

22 Let the wives be subject to their own husbands, as to the Lord, 23 for the husband is head of the wife even as Christ is Head of the ecclesia, and He is the Saviour of the body." 24 Nevertheless, as the ecclesia is subject to Christ, thus are the wives also to their husbands in everything." 25 Husbands, be loving your wives according as Christ also loves the ecclesia, and gives Himself up for its sake, 26 that He should be hallowing it, cleansing it in the bath of the water (with His declaration), 27 that He should be presenting to Himself a glorious ecclesia, not having spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it may be holy and flawless." 28 Thus, the husbands also ought to be loving their own wives as their own bodies. He who is loving his own wife is loving himself." 29 For no one at any time hates his own flesh, but is nurturing and cherishing it, according as Christ also the ecclesia, 30 for we are members of His body. 31 For this "a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh." 32 This secret is great: yet I am saying this as to Christ and as to the ecclesia. 33 Moreover, you also individually, each be loving his own wife thus, as himself, yet that the wife may be fearing the husband."

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