Bible Verses About Wives
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for wives, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,835 votes, led by Proverbs 31:10. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Wives
Proverbs 31:1096 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Ephesians 5:22-3380 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
1 Peter 3:769 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.
Proverbs 21:1965 votes
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
Ephesians 5:2862 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Ephesians 5:3361 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.
Ephesians 5:2260 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:2560 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Peter 3:1-560 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;
Colossians 3:1957 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Hebrews 13:457 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Proverbs 14:154 votes
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
Ephesians 5:3153 votes
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
1 Timothy 2:11-1545 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1 Corinthians 7:244 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Proverbs 18:2239 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Matthew 19:4-635 votes
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Proverbs 19:1433 votes
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Matthew 5:2833 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Titus 2:432 votes
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
1 Peter 3:630 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.
Proverbs 12:429 votes
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 19:13-1429 votes
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Titus 2:4-529 votes
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
1 Corinthians 6:1828 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
What does the Bible say about wives?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 31:10 on the subject of wives. Across 1,835 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:22-33, 1 Peter 3:7, Proverbs 21:19. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.