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• Genesis 2:18

  Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

• Genesis 2:20

  The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.

• Genesis 2:23

  The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

• Genesis 2:24

  Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

• Genesis 3:16

  To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

• Genesis 18:6

  Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”

• Genesis 24:67

  Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

• Genesis 29:31

  Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

• Genesis 29:32

  Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.”

• Genesis 29:33

  She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.

• Genesis 31:14

  Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

• Genesis 31:15

  Aren’t we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

• Genesis 31:16

  For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”

• Genesis 39:7

  After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

• Exodus 4:25

  Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”

• Exodus 21:7

  “If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

• Exodus 21:8

  If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

• Exodus 21:9

  If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.

• Exodus 21:10

  If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

• Exodus 21:11

  If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

• Numbers 5:14

  and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn’t defiled:

• Numbers 5:15

  then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.

• Numbers 5:16

  The priest shall bring her near, and set her before Yahweh;

• Numbers 5:17

  and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.

• Numbers 5:18

  The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

• Numbers 5:19

  The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

• Numbers 5:20

  But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:”

• Numbers 5:21

  then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

• Numbers 5:22

  and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”

• Numbers 5:23

  “‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.

• Numbers 5:24

  He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

• Numbers 5:25

  The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar.

• Numbers 5:26

  The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.

• Numbers 5:27

  When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.

• Numbers 5:28

  If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.

• Numbers 5:29

  “‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;

• Numbers 5:30

  or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.

• Numbers 5:31

  The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’”

• Numbers 30:6

  “If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,

• Numbers 30:7

  and her husband hears it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

• Numbers 30:8

  But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. Yahweh will forgive her.

• Numbers 30:9

  “But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.

• Numbers 30:10

  “If she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

• Numbers 30:11

  and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and didn’t disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.

• Numbers 30:12

  But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. Yahweh will forgive her.

• Numbers 30:13

  Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

• Numbers 30:14

  But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her. He has established them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.

• Numbers 30:15

  But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”

• Numbers 30:16

  These are the statutes which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house.

• Ruth 4:10

  Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

• Ruth 34:4
• Ruth 34:5
• Ruth 34:6
• Ruth 34:7
• Ruth 34:8
• Ruth 34:9
• Ruth 34:10
• Ruth 38:6
• 1 Samuel 25:3

  Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.

• 1 Samuel 25:14

  But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our master; and he insulted them.

• 1 Samuel 25:15

  But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, and we didn’t miss anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields.

• 1 Samuel 25:16

  They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

• 1 Samuel 25:17

  Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can’t speak to him.”

• 1 Samuel 25:18

  Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

• 1 Samuel 25:19

  She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal.

• 1 Samuel 25:20

  As she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.

• 1 Samuel 25:21

  Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

• 1 Samuel 25:22

  God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

• 1 Samuel 25:23

  When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off of her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.

• 1 Samuel 25:24

  She fell at his feet, and said, “On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the words of your servant.

• 1 Samuel 25:25

  Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men, whom you sent.

• 1 Samuel 25:26

  Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

• 1 Samuel 25:27

  Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

• 1 Samuel 25:28

  Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.

• 1 Samuel 25:29

  Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

• 1 Samuel 25:30

  It will come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel,

• 1 Samuel 25:31

  that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”

• 1 Samuel 25:32

  David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!

• 1 Samuel 25:33

  Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

• 1 Samuel 25:34

  For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

• 1 Samuel 25:35

  So David received from her hand that which she had brought him. Then he said to her, “Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice, and have granted your request.”

• 1 Samuel 25:36

  Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, until the morning light.

• 1 Samuel 25:37

  In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

• 1 Samuel 25:38

  About ten days later, Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.

• 1 Samuel 25:39

  When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

• 1 Samuel 25:40

  When David’s servants had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.”

• 1 Samuel 25:41

  She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, “Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”

• 1 Samuel 25:42

  Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

• 2 Samuel 11:2

  At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

• 2 Samuel 11:3

  David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”

• 2 Samuel 11:4

  David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.

• 2 Samuel 11:5

  The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”

• 1 Kings 11:4

  When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

• 1 Kings 11:5

  For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

• 1 Kings 11:6

  Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.

• 1 Kings 11:7

  Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

• 1 Kings 11:8

  So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

• 2 Kings 9:30

  When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.

• 2 Kings 9:31

  As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?”

• 2 Kings 9:32

  He lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.

• 2 Kings 9:33

  He said, “Throw her down!” So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot.

• 2 Kings 9:34

  When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”

• 2 Kings 9:35

  They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.

• 2 Kings 9:36

  Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, “This is Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel,

• 2 Kings 9:37

  and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field on Jezreel’s land, so that they won’t say, “This is Jezebel.”’”

• Nehemiah 13:26

  Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

• Esther 1:10

  On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

• Esther 1:11

  to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful.

• Esther 1:12

  But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

• Esther 1:13

  Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;

• Esther 1:14

  and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),

• Esther 1:15

  “What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?”

• Esther 1:16

  Memucan answered before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.

• Esther 1:17

  For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’

• Esther 1:18

  Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.

• Esther 1:19

  “If it please the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.

• Esther 1:20

  When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.”

• Esther 1:21

  This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

• Esther 1:22

  for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people.

• Psalms 128:3

  Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

• Psalms 128:4

  Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh.

• Proverbs 12:4

  A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

• Proverbs 14:1

  Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

• Proverbs 18:22

  Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

• Proverbs 19:13

  A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

• Proverbs 19:14

  House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

• Proverbs 21:9

  It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

• Proverbs 21:19

  It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

• Proverbs 25:24

  It 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 30:22

  For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food;

• Proverbs 30:23

  for an unloved woman when she is married; and a servant who is heir to her mistress.

• Proverbs 31:10

  Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

• Proverbs 31:11

  The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.

• Proverbs 31:12

  She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.

• Proverbs 31:13

  She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands.

• Proverbs 31:14

  She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.

• Proverbs 31:15

  She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.

• Proverbs 31:16

  She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.

• Proverbs 31:17

  She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.

• Proverbs 31:18

  She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn’t go out by night.

• Proverbs 31:19

  She lays her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.

• Proverbs 31:20

  She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

• Proverbs 31:21

  She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

• Proverbs 31:22

  She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.

• Proverbs 31:23

  Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

• Proverbs 31:24

  She makes linen garments and sells them, and delivers sashes to the merchant.

• Proverbs 31:25

  Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

• Proverbs 31:26

  She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.

• Proverbs 31:27

  She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.

• Proverbs 31:28

  Her 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 31:30

  Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

• Proverbs 31:31

  Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

• Ezekiel 24:16

  Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.

• 1 Corinthians 7:2

  But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

• 1 Corinthians 7:3

  Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.

• 1 Corinthians 7:4

  The 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 7:5

  Don’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 7:6

  But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

• 1 Corinthians 7:10

  But to the married I command — not I, but the Lord — that the wife not leave her husband

• 1 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 7:12

  But 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 7:13

  The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

• 1 Corinthians 7:14

  For 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 7:16

  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 Corinthians 7:27

  Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

• 1 Corinthians 7:28

  But 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 7:29

  But 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 7:32

  But 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 7:33

  but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

• 1 Corinthians 7:34

  There 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 7:38

  So 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 7:39

  A 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 7:40

  But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

• 1 Corinthians 11:3

  But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

• 1 Corinthians 11:4

  Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.

• 1 Corinthians 11:5

  But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

• 1 Corinthians 11:6

  For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaved, let her be covered.

• 1 Corinthians 11:7

  For 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 11:8

  For man is not from woman, but woman from man;

• 1 Corinthians 11:9

  for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.

• 1 Corinthians 11:10

  For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels.

• 1 Corinthians 11:11

  Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

• 1 Corinthians 11:12

  For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

• 1 Corinthians 14:34

  Let the women be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

• 1 Corinthians 14:35

  if they desire to learn anything. “Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to be talking in the assembly.”

• Ephesians 5:22

  Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

• Ephesians 5:23

  For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

• Ephesians 5:24

  But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

• Ephesians 5:25

  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

• Ephesians 5:28

  Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

• Ephesians 5:31

  “For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

• Ephesians 5:33

  Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

• Colossians 3:18

  Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

• Colossians 3:19

  Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

• 1 Timothy 3:11

  Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

• 1 Timothy 5:9

  Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

• 1 Timothy 5:10

  being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

• 1 Timothy 5:14

  I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

• Titus 2:3

  and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

• Titus 2:4

  that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

• Titus 2:5

  to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

• 1 Peter 3:1

  In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

• 1 Peter 3:2

  seeing your pure behavior in fear.

• 1 Peter 3:3

  Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

• 1 Peter 3:4

  but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

• 1 Peter 3:5

  For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

• 1 Peter 3:6

  as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

• 1 Peter 3:7

  You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.