Bible verses about "wives" | ACV

¹⁶ To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy childbearing, in pain thou shall bring forth children. And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

¹ Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish woman plucks it down with her own hands.

¹³ A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. ¹⁴ House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from LORD.

²⁸ But I say to you, that every man who looks on a woman to crave her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

³³ Nevertheless ye also, each one in particular, shall so love his own wife as himself, and the wife that she fear her husband.

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.

³¹ Separate from this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh.

²¹ submitting yourselves to each other in the fear of Christ.

⁴ Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

⁷ Likewise the husbands living together knowledgeably, as with a weaker vessel, apportioning worth to the female as also joint-heirs of the grace of life, for your prayers not to be hindered.

²² Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

²⁸ So ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

¹⁹ Husbands, love the wives and do not be made bitter against them.

²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,

¹¹ Let a woman learn in silence in all subjection. ¹² But I do not allow a woman to teach, nor to have authority of a man, but to be in quietness. ¹³ For Adam was first formed, then Eve. ¹⁴ And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, became in transgression. ¹⁵ But she will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

¹ Likewise the wives, being subordinate to their own husbands, so that even if any are disobedient to the word, they will be gained without a word by the behavior of the wives, ² observing, in fear, your pure behavior. ³ Of which let it not be the outward world of braiding of hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on apparel, ⁴ but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible, of the meek and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. ⁵ For this way formerly also, the holy women, trusting in God, adorned themselves, being subordinate to their own husbands,

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

¹⁰ A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

²² Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. ²³ Because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and himself the savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it, ²⁶ so that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished. ²⁸ So ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ the church, ³⁰ because we are parts of his body, of his flesh and of his bones. ³¹ Separate from this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh. ³² This mystery is great, but I speak for Christ and for the church. ³³ Nevertheless ye also, each one in particular, shall so love his own wife as himself, and the wife that she fear her husband.