Wife
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Wife’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our master; and he insulted them. But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, and we didn’t miss…
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Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east. He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the…
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“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do. If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a…
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Ruth 4:10 OT
Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You…
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Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.” The people came to Bethel and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely. They said,…
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Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things. Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh. I will make you swear by…
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Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.” Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came. Hamor the…
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Genesis 38:6 OT
Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
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“If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul, and her husband hears it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her…
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When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.” This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did…
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Psalms 128:4 OT
Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh.
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A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
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Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
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Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
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House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
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It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
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It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
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It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
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“For three things the earth trembles, and under four, it can’t bear up: For a servant when he is king, a fool when he is filled with food, for an unloved woman when she is married, and a servant who is heir to her mistress.
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Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly…
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But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband. The wife doesn’t have authority…
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But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife. But to the rest I—not the…
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For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?