Bible Verses About Wives

She seeketh wooll and flaxe, and laboureth cheerefully with her handes.

She is like the shippes of marchants: shee bringeth her foode from afarre.

And she riseth, whiles it is yet night: and giueth the portion to her houshold, and the ordinarie to her maides.

She considereth a field, and getteth it: and with the fruite of her handes she planteth a vineyarde.

She girdeth her loynes with strength, and strengtheneth her armes.

She feeleth that her marchandise is good: her candle is not put out by night.

She putteth her handes to the wherue, and her handes handle the spindle.

She stretcheth out her hand to the poore, and putteth foorth her hands to the needie.

She feareth not the snowe for her familie: for all her familie is clothed with skarlet.

She maketh her selfe carpets: fine linen and purple is her garment.

Her husband is knowen in the gates, when he sitteth with the Elders of the land.

She maketh sheetes, and selleth them, and giueth girdels vnto the marchant.

Strength and honour is her clothing, and in the latter day she shall reioyce.

She openeth her mouth with wisdome, and the lawe of grace is in her tongue.

She ouerseeth the wayes of her housholde, and eateth not the bread of ydlenes.

Her children rise vp, and call her blessed: her husband also shall prayse her, saying,

For Herod him selfe had sent forth, and had taken Iohn, and bound him in prison for Herodias sake, which was his brother Philippes wife, because he had maried her.

Both were iust before God, and walked in all the commandements and ordinances of the Lord, without reproofe.

But a certaine man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, solde a possession,

And kept away part of the price, his wife also being of counsell, and brought a certaine part, and layde it downe at the Apostles feete.

And found a certaine Iewe named Aquila, borne in Pontus, lately come from Italie, and his wife Priscilla (because that Claudius had commanded all Iewes to depart from Rome) and he came vnto them.

And he began to speake boldely in the Synagogue. Whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they tooke him vnto them, and expounded vnto him the way of God more perfectly.

For the woman which is in subiection to a man, is bound by the Lawe to the man, while he liueth: but if the man bee dead, shee is deliuered from the lawe of the man.

So then, if while the man liueth, she taketh another man, she shalbe called an adulteresse: but if the man be dead, she is free from the Law, so that shee is not an adulteresse, though shee take another man.

Let the husband giue vnto the wife due beneuolence, and likewise also the wife vnto the husband.