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Being A Good Wife
Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 1,076 helpful votes
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. …
Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 784 helpful votes
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
1 Peter 3:1-6 ESV / 746 helpful votes
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, …
Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 703 helpful votes
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:2-5 ESV / 650 helpful votes
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 614 helpful votes
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 610 helpful votes
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,
1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 549 helpful votes
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 487 helpful votes
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
Ephesians 5:22-6:9 ESV / 485 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, …
Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 479 helpful votes
The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.
Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 462 helpful votes
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 451 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Colossians 3:18 ESV / 419 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 416 helpful votes
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Proverbs 31:11-12 ESV / 382 helpful votes
The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.
Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 347 helpful votes
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. …
James 1:19 ESV / 333 helpful votes
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 322 helpful votes
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 317 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Titus 2:5 ESV / 314 helpful votes
To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
1 Peter 3:5 ESV / 310 helpful votes
For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,
1 Timothy 2:11-14 ESV / 302 helpful votes
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 274 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 260 helpful votes
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 248 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 247 helpful votes
The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. …
Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 243 helpful votes
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
Proverbs 31:12 ESV / 238 helpful votes
She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.
Philippians 2:3 ESV / 236 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 236 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. …
Proverbs 21:9 ESV / 236 helpful votes
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
Genesis 2:24 ESV / 233 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 228 helpful votes
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 216 helpful votes
But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 212 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Genesis 2:18 ESV / 204 helpful votes
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 194 helpful votes
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. …
Romans 12:21 ESV / 190 helpful votes
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 188 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Corinthians 11:9 ESV / 186 helpful votes
Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
1 Corinthians 11:8-9 ESV / 178 helpful votes
For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 173 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Ephesians 5:24 ESV / 166 helpful votes
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Proverbs 25:24 ESV / 163 helpful votes
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
1 Timothy 2:11 ESV / 161 helpful votes
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.
Galatians 3:28 ESV / 150 helpful votes
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 31:11 ESV / 148 helpful votes
The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.
1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 147 helpful votes
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
Mark 10:6-9 ESV / 144 helpful votes
But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 143 helpful votes
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.
1 Timothy 3:11 ESV / 142 helpful votes
Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.
Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 140 helpful votes
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Matthew 5:32 ESV / 131 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Proverbs 31:26 ESV / 129 helpful votes
She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 128 helpful votes
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—
Colossians 3:19 ESV / 128 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 128 helpful votes
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
Ephesians 5:28 ESV / 126 helpful votes
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
1 Peter 3:2 ESV / 123 helpful votes
When they see your respectful and pure conduct.
Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 123 helpful votes
He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
1 Peter 3:6 ESV / 122 helpful votes
As Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
Genesis 3:16 ESV / 121 helpful votes
To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 120 helpful votes
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 120 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 119 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Proverbs 31:16 ESV / 119 helpful votes
She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.
Ephesians 5:31 ESV / 117 helpful votes
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
Romans 12:10 ESV / 115 helpful votes
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 110 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 110 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …
Proverbs 31:17 ESV / 110 helpful votes
She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong.
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 108 helpful votes
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 11:8 ESV / 106 helpful votes
For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.
Proverbs 31:27 ESV / 102 helpful votes
She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 100 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Proverbs 31:28 ESV / 100 helpful votes
Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:
Romans 8:28 ESV / 98 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 97 helpful votes
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 96 helpful votes
And so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 96 helpful votes
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
Mark 10:9 ESV / 95 helpful votes
What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Proverbs 31:23 ESV / 95 helpful votes
Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.
Philippians 2:13 ESV / 93 helpful votes
For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Proverbs 31:31 ESV / 93 helpful votes
Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.
Titus 2:4 ESV / 89 helpful votes
And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 88 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Proverbs 19:13 ESV / 79 helpful votes
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
Proverbs 30:1-33 ESV / 78 helpful votes
The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The oracle. The man declares, I am weary, O God; I am weary, O God, and worn out. Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man. I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One. Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you know! Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. …
Proverbs 31:20 ESV / 72 helpful votes
She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.
Psalm 127:3 ESV / 69 helpful votes
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 68 helpful votes
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Genesis 1:27 ESV / 67 helpful votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 66 helpful votes
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 64 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Proverbs 31:10-12 ESV / 60 helpful votes
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.
Genesis 1:27-28 ESV / 59 helpful votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Titus 2:12 ESV / 56 helpful votes
Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
1 Corinthians 7:15 ESV / 53 helpful votes
But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 53 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
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