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Bible Verses About Wife

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  1. For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt saue thine husband? Or what knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt saue thy wife?

  2. Art thou bounde vnto a wife? seeke not to be loosed: art thou loosed from a wife? seeke not a wife.

  3. But if thou takest a wife, thou sinnest not: and if a virgine marrie, shee sinneth not: neuerthelesse, such shall haue trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

  4. And this I say, brethren, because the time is short, hereafter that both they which haue wiues, be as though they had none:

  5. And I would haue you without care. The vnmaried careth for the things of the Lord, howe he may please the Lord.

  6. But hee that is maried, careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

  7. There is difference also betweene a virgine and a wife: the vnmaried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirite: but shee that is maried, careth for the things of the worlde, howe shee may please her husband.

  8. So then hee that giueth her to mariage, doeth well, but he that giueth her not to mariage, doeth better.

  9. The wife is bounde by the Lawe, as long as her husband liueth: but if her husband bee dead, shee is at libertie to marie with whome she will, onely in the Lord.

  10. But shee is more blessed, if she so abide, in my iudgement: and I thinke that I haue also the Spirite of God.

  11. But I wil that ye know, that Christ is the head of euery man: and the man is the womans head: and God is Christs head.

  12. Euery man praying or prophecying hauing any thing on his head, dishonoureth his head.

  13. But euery woman that prayeth or prophecieth bare headed, dishonoureth her head: for it is euen one very thing, as though she were shauen.

  14. Therefore if the woman be not couered, let her also be shorne: and if it be shame for a woman to be shorne or shauen, let her be couered.

  15. For a man ought not to couer his head: for as much as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

  16. For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.

  17. For the man was not created for the womans sake: but the woman for the mans sake.

  18. Therefore ought the woman to haue power on her head, because of the Angels.

  19. Neuertheles, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord.

  20. For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman: but all things are of God.

  21. Let your women keepe silence in the Churches: for it is not permitted vnto them to speake: but they ought to be subiect, as also the Lawe sayth.

  22. And if they will learne any thing, let them aske their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speake in the Church.

  23. Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as vnto the Lord.

  24. For the husband is the wiues head, euen as Christ is the head of the Church, and the same is the sauiour of his body.

  25. Therfore as the Church is in subiection to Christ, euen so let the wiues be to their husbands in euery thing.