Wives
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Wives’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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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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Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
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She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.
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Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.
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The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.
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Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:
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She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands. She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar. She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls. She considers…
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She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.
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The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.
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For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
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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?
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1 Peter 3:2 NT
seeing your pure behavior in fear.
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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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Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
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Judges 13:10 OT
The woman hurried and ran, and told her husband, saying to him, “Behold, the man who came to me that day has appeared to me,”
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Ruth 1:4 OT
They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years.
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Ruth 1:8 OT
Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.
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Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.
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Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther…
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Luke 1:6 NT
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
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Acts 18:2 NT
He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,
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Acts 18:26 NT
He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
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1 Peter 3:6 NT
So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
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On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?” Samson’s wife wept before…