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Wives Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 54 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 31:10 ESV / 48 helpful votes An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 36 helpful votes It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.1 Peter 3:1-5 ESV / 35 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,1 Timothy 2:11-15 ESV / 30 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. Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 29 helpful votes Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,Colossians 3:19 ESV / 25 helpful votes Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.Ephesians 5:28 ESV / 24 helpful votes In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 22 helpful votes Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 19 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.Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 19 helpful votes However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 16 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.Ephesians 5:31 ESV / 16 helpful votes “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 16 helpful votes The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.Matthew 5:28 ESV / 15 helpful votes But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.Proverbs 19:13-14 ESV / 15 helpful votes A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain. House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 14 helpful votes Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.Genesis 3:16 ESV / 12 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 5:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.1 Peter 3:6 ESV / 10 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.Titus 2:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 10 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.Colossians 3:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.1 Peter 3:8-9 ESV / 9 helpful votes Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
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