12 Bible Verses about Being A Wife
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subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God. The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,read more.
but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything. The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying, that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished; so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love; for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly, because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones; for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;' this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;
A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,
Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.
but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.
sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.
whose adorning -- let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,
subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.