Bible Verses About Wives

Bible verses about wives offer valuable insights into the role and importance of women in marriage, highlighting the deep love, respect, and commitment that should characterize a healthy relationship. These scriptures teach wives to honor and support their husbands, while also reflecting God’s love and grace in their homes. By exploring these verses, we learn about the strength, wisdom, and nurturing qualities that God desires in wives, as well as the mutual partnership He intended for marriage. These teachings inspire both wives and husbands to grow together in faith and love.

Bible Verses About Wives

Proverbs 18:22 – He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Proverbs 31:10 – An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Ephesians 5:22 – Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:25 – Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.

1 Peter 3:1 – Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives.

Proverbs 31:30 – Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Colossians 3:18 – Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

1 Peter 3:7 – Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Genesis 2:24 – Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Proverbs 19:14 – House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Ephesians 5:33 – However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:3 – The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:4 – For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

Proverbs 12:4 – An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Genesis 2:18 – Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

Titus 2:4 – And so train the young women to love their husbands and children.

1 Timothy 3:11 – Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.

1 Corinthians 11:3 – But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

1 Peter 3:3-4 – Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.

Song of Solomon 4:9 – You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

Proverbs 31:11 – The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.

Proverbs 31:12 – She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.

Ecclesiastes 9:9 – Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

Song of Solomon 6:3 – I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.

Genesis 24:67 – Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis 29:20 – So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

Proverbs 14:1 – The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

Proverbs 21:19 – It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

1 Corinthians 7:10 – To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband.

Proverbs 27:15-16 – A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike; to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one’s right hand.

Song of Solomon 8:6 – Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 24:5 – When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.

Mark 10:7 – ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife.

Ephesians 5:28 – In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Matthew 19:4-6 – He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Malachi 2:14-15 – But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.

1 Timothy 2:11-12 – Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

Song of Solomon 4:7 – You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.

Hebrews 13:4 – Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

1 Corinthians 7:14 – For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

Song of Solomon 2:16 – My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.

Isaiah 62:5 – For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

Proverbs 5:18-19 – Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

Proverbs 31:28 – Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.

Proverbs 31:29 – “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”

Ruth 3:11 – And now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you all that you ask, for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a worthy woman.

1 Samuel 25:3 – Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; he was a Calebite.

Proverbs 30:18-19 – Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin.

1 Corinthians 7:2-3 – But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 – Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Proverbs 11:16 – A gracious woman gets honor, and violent men get riches.

Song of Solomon 4:1 – Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.

Song of Solomon 4:10 – How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!

Deuteronomy 24:1 – When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house.

1 Corinthians 7:11 – But if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband, and the husband should not divorce his wife.

1 Corinthians 7:12-13 – To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.

Hosea 3:1 – And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”

Deuteronomy 22:13 – If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then hates her.

Ephesians 5:24 – Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

Song of Solomon 7:10 – I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me.

1 Corinthians 11:12 – For as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.

Deuteronomy 21:13 – And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

Ephesians 5:31 – “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

Genesis 24:67 – Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

1 Corinthians 7:16 – For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

1 Timothy 5:14 – So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

Romans 7:2 – For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.

Ephesians 5:29 – For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

Jeremiah 3:20 – Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband, so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel, declares the Lord.

Ruth 4:13 – So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son.

Judges 14:20 – And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.

Proverbs 31:27 – She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Psalm 128:3 – Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

Proverbs 5:15-17 – Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.

Matthew 19:5 – “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

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