Bible Verses About Wives

The wife hath not power of her own body: but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body: but the wife.

Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer: and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.

But to them that are married, not I, but the Lord, commandeth that the wife depart not from her husband.

And if any woman hath a husband that believeth not and he consent to dwell with her: let her not put away her husband.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife: and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband. Otherwise your children should be unclean: but now they are holy.

For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak but to be subject, as also the law saith.

But if they would learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.

Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

Therefore as the church is subject to Christ: so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things.

Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular love for his wife as himself: And let the wife fear her husband.

In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire:

But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

The women in like manner: chaste, not slanderers, but sober, faithful in all things.

Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have diligently followed every good work.

That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, to love their children.

To be discreet, chaste, sober, having a care of the house, gentle, obedient to their husbands: that the word of God be not blasphemed.

In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives,

Considering your chaste conversation with fear.

Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel:

But the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit which is rich in the sight of God.

For after this manner heretofore, the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, doing well and not fearing any disturbance.