Bible Verses About Wives

She procures a supply of wool and flax and works with willing hands.

She is like those merchant vessels, bringing her food from far away.

It's still dark when she rises to give food to her household and orders to the young women serving her.

She considers a field, then buys it, and from her earnings she plants a vineyard.

She gathers her strength around her and throws herself into her work.

She sees that her business affairs go well; her lamp stays lit at night.

She puts her hands to the staff with the flax; her fingers hold the spinning rod.

She reaches out to embrace the poor and opens her arms to the needy.

When it snows, she has no fear for her household; since all of them are doubly clothed.

She makes her own quilts; she is clothed in fine linen and purple.

Her husband is known at the city gates when he sits with the leaders of the land.

She makes linen garments and sells them; she supplies the merchants with sashes.

Clothed with strength and dignity, she can laugh at the days to come.

When she opens her mouth, she speaks wisely; on her tongue is loving instruction.

She watches how things go in her house, not eating the bread of idleness.

Her children arise; they make her happy; her husband too, as he praises her:

For Herod had sent and had Yochanan arrested and chained in prison because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip. Herod had married her,

Both of them were righteous before God, observing all the mitzvot and ordinances of ADONAI blamelessly.

But there was a man named Hananyah who, with his wife Shappirah, sold some property

and, with his wife’s knowledge, withheld some of the proceeds for himself; although he did bring the rest to the emissaries.

where he met a Jewish man named Aquila, originally from Pontus but having recently come with his wife Priscilla from Italy, because Claudius had issued a decree expelling all the Jews from Rome. Sha’ul went to see them;

He began to speak out boldly in the synagogue; but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the Way of God in fuller detail.

For example, a married woman is bound by Torah to her husband while he is alive; but if the husband dies, she is released from the part of the Torah that deals with husbands.

Therefore, while the husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress if she marries another man; but if the husband dies, she is free from that part of the Torah; so that if she marries another man, she is not an adulteress.

The husband should give his wife what she is entitled to in the marriage relationship, and the wife should do the same for her husband.