Bible Verses About Wife

And by this example all the wives of the princes of the Persians and the Medes will slight the commandments of their husbands: wherefore the king's indignation is just.

If it please thee, let an edict go out from thy presence, and let it be written according to the law of the Persians and of the Medes, which must not be altered, that Vasthi come in no more to the king, but another, that is better than her, be made queen in her place.

And let this be published through all the provinces of thy empire, (which is very wide,) and let all wives, as well of the greater as of the lesser, give honour to their husbands.

His counsel pleased the king, and the princes: and the king did according to the counsel of Mamuchan.

And he sent letters to all the provinces of his kingdom, as every nation could hear and read, in divers languages and characters, that the husbands should be rulers and masters in their houses: and that this should be published to every people.

The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity.

The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:

A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is as rottenness in his bones.

A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built.

He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked.

A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.

House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.

It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.

It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.

It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop: than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.

By three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot bear.

By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when be is filled with meat:

By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when she is heir to her mistress.

Who shall find a valiant woman? far, and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her.

The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall have no need of spoils.

She will render him good, and not evil all the days of her life.

She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel of her hands.

She is like the merchant's ship, she bringeth her bread from afar.

And she hath risen in the night, and given a prey to her household, and victuals to her maidens.

She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.