Bible Verses about “disobedient wives”
The Bible contains 23 verses about disobedient wives across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”
“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;”
“but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.”
“Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
“You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.”
“For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”
“For the husband is the head of the wife, and 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 also be to their own husbands in everything.”
“to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.”
“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;”
“that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,”
“For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:”
“and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;”
“seeing your pure behavior in fear.”
“as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.”
“"'If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”
“Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.”
“It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.”
“But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.”
“They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.”
“the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;”
“in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;”