Bible Verses About Duties of a Wife
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for duties of a wife, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,481 votes, led by 1 Peter 3:1-6. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Duties of a Wife
1 Peter 3:1-6221 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;
1 Corinthians 7:1-40205 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Proverbs 31:10-31203 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Ephesians 5:33174 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 3:1171 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;
1 Peter 3:7153 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.
Ephesians 5:22143 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:3142 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.
Colossians 3:18137 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Genesis 2:18128 votes
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
1 Timothy 2:11-14128 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Proverbs 12:4127 votes
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Ephesians 5:22-33120 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Genesis 3:16117 votes
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Matthew 19:996 votes
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
1 Corinthians 7:292 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Hebrews 13:490 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 11:7-1285 votes
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
Titus 2:3-584 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 31:1282 votes
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
1 Corinthians 7:3-982 votes
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
1 Corinthians 7:13-1682 votes
And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
Proverbs 31:2681 votes
She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
1 Timothy 3:281 votes
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Titus 2:481 votes
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
What does the Bible say about duties of a wife?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 3:1-6 on the subject of duties of a wife. Across 5,481 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 7:1-40, Proverbs 31:10-31, Ephesians 5:33. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.