Bible Verses About Sons' Wives

All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.

For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:

Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;

And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.

And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.

And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:

And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.

And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.