Bible Verses About Disobedient Wives
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for disobedient wives, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 736 votes, led by Ephesians 5:22. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Disobedient Wives
Ephesians 5:2254 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
1 Peter 3:749 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 Peter 3:142 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;
Hebrews 13:440 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Peter 3:633 votes
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
Titus 2:3-526 votes
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Proverbs 21:925 votes
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Ephesians 2:224 votes
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Leviticus 20:1321 votes
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
2 Timothy 3:221 votes
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Genesis 19:2620 votes
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Colossians 3:1820 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:19-2018 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Peter 3:1-618 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;
Ephesians 5:22-2417 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
2 Peter 2:917 votes
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
Ephesians 5:2416 votes
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Ephesians 5:3316 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 Timothy 2:1-1516 votes
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
Titus 1:1616 votes
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Joshua 5:613 votes
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not shew them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Ephesians 5:2513 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Timothy 5:1413 votes
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Titus 2:513 votes
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
1 Peter 4:813 votes
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
What does the Bible say about disobedient wives?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 5:22 on the subject of disobedient wives. Across 736 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 3:7, 1 Peter 3:1, Hebrews 13:4. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.