Disrespectful Wives
10 passages
- Proverbs 21:19
Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
Read it in context - Proverbs 12:4
A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
Read it in context - Proverbs 21:9
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Read it in context - Proverbs 14:1
Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
Read it in context - Ephesians 5:22–24
22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 7:3–5
3The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife. 5Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.
Read it in context - Titus 2:3–5
3Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good. 4In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.
Read it in context - 1 Timothy 2:11
A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.
Read it in context - Proverbs 31:10–12
10A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies. 11The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he lacks nothing of value. 12She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.
Read it in context - Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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