Bible Verses About Wives

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

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;

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

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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.

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

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

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

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

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

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.

If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

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

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

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

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

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.

Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

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?

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

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?

For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,

But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,