Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: And a prudent wife is from the LORD.
that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: Thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
But 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.
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.