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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Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife. But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare…
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But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife. There is…
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So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better. A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever…
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But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
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For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man. For man is not from woman, but woman from man; for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the…
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Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
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For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.
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Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,
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if they desire to learn anything. “Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a wife to be talking in the assembly.”
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Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives…
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Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
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“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
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Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
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Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
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Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
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Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
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being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
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I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
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Titus 2:3-5 NT
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good, that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sober minded,…
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In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word, seeing your pure behavior in fear. Let your beauty be not just the…