Bible Verses about “wifely duties”

“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”

“Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.”

“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;”

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;”

“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.”

“The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.”

“But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.”

“Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”

“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.”

“For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?”

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

“But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.”

“Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.”

“Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.”

“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 wife.”

“Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”

“But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.”

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

“For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;”

“Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,”

“"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."”

“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.”

“that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,”

“that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”

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

“nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.”

“redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”

“But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.”

“because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.”

“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;”

“This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.”

“Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.”

“Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;”

“speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;”

“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:”

“Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.”

“But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;”

“seeing your pure behavior in fear.”

“giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;”

“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.”

“Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.”

“subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.”

“Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.”

“For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,”

“Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.”

“Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.”

“Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."”

“Therefore don't be partakers with them.”