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Bible Verses About wives

16 key scriptures

What does the Bible say about wives? Browse 16 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: Proverbs 31:10
King James (KJV)Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

16 Key Scriptures

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
It is better to dwell in the wilderness , than with a contentious and an angry woman. in: Heb. in the land of the desert
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Nevertheless , to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

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