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These scriptures reflect the beauty, honor, and responsibility of being a wife, as well as the importance of mutual respect, love, and submission in a marriage. They emphasize the essential role we play as wives in building up our families, our strength, and the importance of nurturing relationships with our husbands and with God.
Here are 20 Bible verses that speak about us wives, our roles, and how we can live out our relationships with love, respect, and strength:
- Proverbs 31:10-12
“A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.” - Ephesians 5:20-24“Always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.”
- Proverbs 18:22
“He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord.” - Genesis 2:18
“The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.’” - 1 Peter 3:1-2
“Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.” - Colossians 3:18
“Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.” - Titus 2:4-5
“Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.” - Proverbs 31:25-26
“She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.” - 1 Corinthians 7:3
“The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.” - Ephesians 5:33
“However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” - Proverbs 12:4
“A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.” - Matthew 19:5-6
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” - Song of Solomon 4:7
“You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you.” - 1 Timothy 3:11
“In the same way, their wives are to be women worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.” - Ecclesiastes 9:9
“Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.” - 1 Corinthians 11:11-12
“Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.” - Ephesians 5:25
“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” - 1 Peter 3:7
“Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.” - Proverbs 14:1
“The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.” - 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.”