Bible Verses About Being a Good Wife
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for being a good wife, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 36,337 votes, led by Proverbs 31:10-31. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Being a Good Wife
Proverbs 31:10-311,272 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Proverbs 18:221,071 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Ephesians 5:33999 votes
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
1 Peter 3:1-6921 votes
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Proverbs 12:4831 votes
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
1 Peter 3:7778 votes
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
1 Corinthians 7:2-5775 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Peter 3:1768 votes
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Proverbs 14:1656 votes
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
1 Corinthians 11:3655 votes
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.
Proverbs 19:14636 votes
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Ephesians 5:25631 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Colossians 3:18627 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Hebrews 13:4601 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Ephesians 5:22-6:9572 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Proverbs 31:11-12523 votes
The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
Ephesians 5:22473 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Titus 2:5470 votes
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
James 1:19452 votes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Titus 2:1-15449 votes
But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
Proverbs 31:10440 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
1 Peter 3:5427 votes
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
1 Timothy 2:11-14395 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Genesis 2:24390 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13367 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
What does the Bible say about being a good wife?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 31:10-31 on the subject of being a good wife. Across 36,337 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 18:22, Ephesians 5:33, 1 Peter 3:1-6. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.