Thematic Bible: The duties of a wife


Thematic Bible





CONCERNING what you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman; but on account of fornications, let each man have his wife, and each woman have her husband. Let the husband render to the wife her due, and in like manner also the wife the husband.

In like manner let the women be subject to their husbands, that even if some disobey the word, they may be gained through the conduct of their wives without the word, seeing your pure mode of life in the fear [of God]. Whose ornament let it not be the external [ornament] of braided hair and the putting on of chains of gold or of clothing, read more.
but let the hidden man of the heart be adorned with the imperishable [ornaments] of a meek and quiet spirit, which are of great price before God. For so formerly also the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves, being subject to their husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose children you are, doing good and having no fear.