Bible Verses About Wifely Duties
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for wifely duties, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,156 votes, led by Titus 2:4-5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Wifely Duties
Titus 2:4-5227 votes
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
1 Peter 3:1-6209 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 7:3-9208 votes
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Ephesians 5:33156 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 Corinthians 11:3146 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.
Ephesians 5:22-33146 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Colossians 3:18133 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Proverbs 14:1116 votes
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
1 Corinthians 7:13-16116 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.
1 Timothy 5:8104 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Ephesians 5:1-3393 votes
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Ephesians 5:2290 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:589 votes
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
1 Peter 3:788 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.
Genesis 3:1684 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 19:682 votes
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Proverbs 31:1-3181 votes
The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
Genesis 2:1880 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.
Proverbs 31:10-3178 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
1 Peter 3:170 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;
Genesis 2:2469 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Matthew 19:567 votes
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Ephesians 5:2567 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Titus 2:567 votes
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Titus 2:462 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 wifely duties?
Readers most often cite Titus 2:4-5 on the subject of wifely duties. Across 5,156 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 3:1-6, 1 Corinthians 7:3-9, Ephesians 5:33. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.