Bible Verses About Wife

As for husbands, love your wives, just as the Messiah loved the Messianic Community, indeed, gave himself up on its behalf,

This is how husbands ought to love their wives — like their own bodies; for the man who loves his wife is loving himself.

“Therefore a man will leave his father and mother and remain with his wife, and the two will become one.”

However, the text also applies to each of you individually: let each man love his wife as he does himself, and see that the wife respects her husband.

Wives, subject yourselves to your husbands, as is appropriate in the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives and don’t treat them harshly.

Similarly, the wives must be of good character, not gossips, but temperate, faithful in everything.

Let a widow be enrolled on the list of widows only if she is more than sixty years old, was faithful to her husband,

and is known for her good deeds — as one who has reared her children well, showed hospitality, washed the feet of God’s people, helped those in trouble, and engaged in all kinds of good work.

Therefore, I would rather the young widows get married, have children and take charge of their homes, so as to give the opposition no occasion for slandering us.

Likewise, tell the older women to behave the way people leading a holy life should. They shouldn’t be slanderers or slaves to excessive drinking. They should teach what is good,

thus training the younger women to love their husbands and children,

to be self-controlled and pure, to take good care of their homes and submit to their husbands. In this way, God’s message will not be brought into disgrace.

In the same way, wives, submit to your husbands; so that even if some of them do not believe the Word, they will be won over by your conduct, without your saying anything,

as they see your respectful and pure behavior.

Your beauty should not consist in externals such as fancy hairstyles, gold jewelry or what you wear;

rather, let it be the inner character of your heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit. In God’s sight this is of great value.

This is how the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves and submit to their husbands,

the way Sarah obeyed Avraham, honoring him as her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not succumb to fear.

You husbands, likewise, conduct your married lives with understanding. Although your wife may be weaker physically, you should respect her as a fellow-heir of the gift of Life. If you don’t, your prayers will be blocked.

Thus keep yourselves in God’s love, as you wait for our Lord Yeshua the Messiah to give you the mercy that leads to eternal life.