12 Bible Verses about Wives, Duties Of

And I will cause thee to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife to my son, from the daughters of the Canaanites in the midst of whom I shall dwell.

And Esau will be the son of forty years, and he will take a wife, Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemah, daughter of Elon the Hittite. And they will be bitterness of spirit to Isaak and to Rebekah.

And Isaak will call to Jacob, and will bless him, and will command him, and will say to him, Thou shalt not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

That they render the young women discreet, to be lovers of the husband, lovers of the children,

But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband.

Let the husband return to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband. The wife of her own body has not power, but the husband: and likewise also the husband of his own body has not power, but the wife. Deprive ye not one another, except somewhat of an agreement for a time, that ye might have leisure for fasting and prayer; and again upon the same ye might come together, lest Satan tempt you for your want of self command.

To the woman he said, Multiplying, I will multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and to thy husband thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.

Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Likewise, wives being subject to their own husbands; that also, if any believe not the word, by the turning back of wives might be gained without the word;

Let your women be silent in the churches: for it has not been committed to them to speak; but to be subjected, as also says the law.

Of sound mind chaste, remaining at home, good subordinates to their own husbands, that the word of God be not defamed.

For a married woman is bound by the law to a living husband; and if the husband die, she is left inactive from the law of the husband. Wherefore, the husband living, she shall be called adulteress if she be to another man: but if the man die, she is free from the law; not to be an adulteress, being to another man.