TOPICAL BIBLE
Wife
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Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.Proverbs 25:24It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.Proverbs 30:21“For three things the earth tremble, and under four, it can’t bear up:Proverbs 30:22For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food;Proverbs 30:23for an unloved woman when she is married; and a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.Proverbs 31:10Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.Proverbs 31:11The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.Proverbs 31:12She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.Proverbs 31:13She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands.Proverbs 31:14She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.Proverbs 31:15She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.Proverbs 31:16She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.Proverbs 31:17She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.Proverbs 31:18She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn’t go out by night.Proverbs 31:19She lays her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.Proverbs 31:20She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.Proverbs 31:21She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her household are clothed with scarlet.Proverbs 31:22She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.Proverbs 31:23Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.Proverbs 31:24She makes linen garments and sells them, and delivers sashes to the merchant.Proverbs 31:25Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.Proverbs 31:26She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.Proverbs 31:27She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.Proverbs 31:28Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:Proverbs 31:29“Many women do noble things, but you excel them all.”Proverbs 31:30Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.Proverbs 31:31Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!1 Corinthians 7:2But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.1 Corinthians 7:3Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.1 Corinthians 7:4The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.1 Corinthians 7:5Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.1 Corinthians 7:6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.1 Corinthians 7:10But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband1 Corinthians 7:11(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.1 Corinthians 7:12But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.1 Corinthians 7:13The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.1 Corinthians 7:14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.1 Corinthians 7:16For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?1 Corinthians 7:27Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.1 Corinthians 7:28But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.1 Corinthians 7:29But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;1 Corinthians 7:32But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;1 Corinthians 7:33but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.1 Corinthians 7:34There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.1 Corinthians 7:38So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.1 Corinthians 7:39A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.1 Corinthians 7:40But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.1 Corinthians 11:3But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.1 Corinthians 11:4Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.1 Corinthians 11:5But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.1 Corinthians 11:6For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.1 Corinthians 11:7For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.1 Corinthians 11:8For man is not from woman, but woman from man;1 Corinthians 11:9for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.1 Corinthians 11:10For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.1 Corinthians 11:11Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.1 Corinthians 11:12For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.1 Corinthians 14:34let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.1 Corinthians 14:35If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the assembly.Ephesians 5:22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.