An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Synonyms for Wives: helpmates, helpmeets, spouses, missuses, partners, wifeys, mates, consort, missises, women, ladies, madams, squeezes, brides, companions, and dutches

Genesis 2:22-24 (ESV)
And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” 24. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Psalms 128:3-4 (ESV)
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. 4. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord.

Proverbs 5:15 (ESV)
Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

Proverbs 5:17-18 (ESV)
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 18. Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

Proverbs 12:4 (ESV)
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 18:22 (ESV)
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Proverbs 19:14 (ESV)
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Proverbs 21:9 (ESV)
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Proverbs 21:19 (ESV)
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

Proverbs 27:15 (ESV)
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;

Proverbs 31:10 (ESV)
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Matthew 19:4-5 (ESV)
He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5. and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

Matthew 19:7-8 (ESV)
They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” 8. He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Matthew 19:9-10 (ESV)
And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.” 10. The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”

1 Corinthians 7:3 (ESV)
The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:4-5 (ESV)
For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 (ESV)
To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband 11. (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

1 Corinthians 7:12-13 (ESV)
To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. 13. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.

1 Corinthians 7:14 (ESV)
For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

1 Corinthians 7:15-16 (ESV)
But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. 16. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Ephesians 5:22 (ESV)
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:23 (ESV)
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

Ephesians 5:24 (ESV)
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

Ephesians 5:28 (ESV)
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:31 (ESV)
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

Ephesians 5:33 (ESV)
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Colossians 3:18 (ESV)
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Colossians 3:19 (ESV)
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

1 Timothy 3:2 (ESV)
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

1 Timothy 3:11 (ESV)
Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.

1 Timothy 3:12 (ESV)
Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

Titus 1:6 (ESV)
if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

1 Peter 3:1-5 (ESV)
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, 2. when they see your respectful and pure conduct. 3. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— 4. but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. 5. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,

1 Peter 3:7 (ESV)
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

The wives’ topic wouldn’t be complete without Proverbs 31, also known as The Proverbs 31 woman.

Proverbs 31:10-31 (ESV)
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. 11. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. 12. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. 13. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. 14. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. 15. She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens. 16. She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.

17. She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong. 18. She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night. 19. She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle. 20. She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy. 21. She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet. 22. She makes bed coverings for herself; her clothing is fine linen and purple. 23. Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.

24. She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant. 25. Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. 26. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. 27. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. 28. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: 29. “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” 30. Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. 31. Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.

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