Wives

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Genesis 24:3 OT

  I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

• Genesis 26:34 OT

  When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

• Genesis 26:35 OT

  They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.

• Genesis 28:1 OT

  Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

• Titus 2:4 NT

  that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,

• Ephesians 5:33 NT

  Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

• 1 Corinthians 7:3-5 NT

  Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband. The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the…

• 1 Corinthians 7:10 NT

  But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

• Genesis 3:16 OT

  To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

• Ephesians 5:22 NT

  Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

• Ephesians 5:24 NT

  But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

• 1 Peter 3:1 NT

  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,

• 1 Corinthians 14:34 NT

  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,

• Titus 2:5 NT

  to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

• Romans 7:2 NT

  For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

• Romans 7:3 NT

  So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

• 1 Timothy 2:9 NT

  In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,

• 1 Peter 3:3 NT

  Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

• 1 Peter 3:4 NT

  but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

• 1 Peter 3:5 NT

  For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.

• 1 Timothy 2:10 NT

  but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.

• 1 Timothy 5:10 NT

  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.

• Proverbs 19:14 OT

  House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

• Proverbs 18:22 OT

  Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.