Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 1,225 helpful votes Thank you for your vote.

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of
her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and
not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing
hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. ...

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 1,042 helpful votes Thank you for your vote.
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 973 helpful votes Thank you for your vote.
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that
she respects her husband.

1 Peter 3:1-6 ESV / 882 helpful votes Thank you for your vote.
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey
the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they
see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external�the
braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear� but
let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of
a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how
the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their
own husbands, ...

Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 812 helpful votes

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like
rottenness in his bones.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 767 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to
the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life,
so that your prayers may not be hindered.

1 Corinthians 7:2-5 ESV / 759 helpful votes

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own
wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her
conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have
authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not
have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another,
except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to
prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of
your lack of self-control.

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 758 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey
the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 647 helpful votes

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a
wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 643 helpful votes

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 630 helpful votes

House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 626 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Colossians 3:18 ESV / 620 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 592 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for
God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Ephesians 5:22-6:9 ESV / 559 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of
the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its
Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in
everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church
and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the
washing of water with the word, ...

Proverbs 31:11-12 ESV / 518 helpful votes

The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does
him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 469 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Titus 2:5 ESV / 466 helpful votes

To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own
husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

James 1:19 ESV / 443 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak,
slow to anger;

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 442 helpful votes

But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-
minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to
much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love
their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind,
and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ...

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 440 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

1 Peter 3:5 ESV / 423 helpful votes

For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by
submitting to their own husbands,

1 Timothy 2:11-14 ESV / 392 helpful votes

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach
or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was
formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and
became a transgressor.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 385 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife,
and they shall become one flesh.

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 368 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of
the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its
Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in
everything to their husbands.

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 365 helpful votes

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to
much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love
their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind,
and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 362 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy
gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all
mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains,
but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my
body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind;
love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its
own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 356 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing,
my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do
not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not
for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take
strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the
rights of all the afflicted. ...

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 354 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his
household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 341 helpful votes

Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant
than yourselves.

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 329 helpful votes

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 328 helpful votes

But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable
beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 328 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, �It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make
him a helper fit for him.�

Proverbs 31:12 ESV / 313 helpful votes

She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.

Proverbs 21:9 ESV / 312 helpful votes

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a
quarrelsome wife.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 311 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of
sins.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 305 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart
from it.
Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 302 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ
loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But
sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among
you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor
crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For
you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is
covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and
God. ...

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 275 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: �It is good for a man not to have
sexual relations with a woman.� But because of the temptation to sexual immorality,
each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband
should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does.
Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that
you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan
may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

Romans 12:21 ESV / 268 helpful votes

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

1 Corinthians 11:9 ESV / 262 helpful votes

Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

Ephesians 5:24 ESV / 255 helpful votes

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to
their husbands.

1 Timothy 3:11 ESV / 251 helpful votes

Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful
in all things.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 243 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Proverbs 25:24 ESV / 243 helpful votes

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a
quarrelsome wife.

Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 235 helpful votes

It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

1 Timothy 2:11 ESV / 229 helpful votes

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.

Proverbs 31:11 ESV / 224 helpful votes

The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 223 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external�the braiding of hair and the putting on of
gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear�

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 223 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male
and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
1 Corinthians 11:8-9 ESV / 223 helpful votes
For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for
woman, but woman for man.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 218 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the
things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his
servant John,

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 218 helpful votes

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be
praised.

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 213 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of
sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman
commits adultery.

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 209 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 209 helpful votes

He answered, �Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made
them male and female, and said, �Therefore a man shall leave his father and his
mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh�? So they are
no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man
separate.�

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 207 helpful votes

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own
wife and each woman her own husband.

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 206 helpful votes

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and
give the adversary no occasion for slander.

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 206 helpful votes

To the woman he said, �I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain
you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall
rule over you.�

1 Peter 3:2 ESV / 204 helpful votes

When they see your respectful and pure conduct.

Proverbs 31:26 ESV / 201 helpful votes

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 200 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Ephesians 5:28 ESV / 198 helpful votes

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves
his wife loves himself.

Mark 10:6-9 ESV / 198 helpful votes

But from the beginning of creation, �God made them male and female.� �Therefore a
man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall
become one flesh.� So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has
joined together, let not man separate.�

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 196 helpful votes

For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church,
his body, and is himself its Savior.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 194 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Ephesians 5:31 ESV / 187 helpful votes

�Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and
the two shall become one flesh.�

Titus 2:4 ESV / 186 helpful votes

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

Proverbs 31:16 ESV / 185 helpful votes

She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a
vineyard.

1 Peter 3:6 ESV / 184 helpful votes

As Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good
and do not fear anything that is frightening.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 179 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 178 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline
and instruction of the Lord.

Mark 10:9 ESV / 178 helpful votes

What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.�

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 177 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To
the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from
God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we
pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you
have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you
have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

Proverbs 31:17 ESV / 174 helpful votes

She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong.

Proverbs 31:27 ESV / 168 helpful votes

She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 165 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for
those who are called according to his purpose.

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 160 helpful votes

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-
controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that
the word of God may not be reviled.

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 157 helpful votes

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer,
a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated
always in her love.

Proverbs 31:28 ESV / 155 helpful votes

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

1 Corinthians 11:8 ESV / 148 helpful votes

For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.

Proverbs 31:31 ESV / 147 helpful votes

Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.

Proverbs 31:23 ESV / 147 helpful votes

Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 140 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 137 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will
be added to you.

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 136 helpful votes

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and
if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Proverbs 19:13 ESV / 134 helpful votes

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual
dripping of rain.

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 132 helpful votes

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is
free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 129 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not
rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes
all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 126 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and
female he created them.

Genesis 1:27-28 ESV / 125 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and
female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, �Be fruitful
and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of
the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on
the earth.�

Philippians 2:13 ESV / 124 helpful votes

For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Proverbs 31:20 ESV / 124 helpful votes

She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 118 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Proverbs 30:1-33 ESV / 111 helpful votes

The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The oracle. The man declares, I am weary, O God; I
am weary, O God, and worn out. Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the
understanding of a man. I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy
One. Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his
fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends
of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Surely you know! Every
word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. ...

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 110 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not
rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes
all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for
prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge,
it will pass away.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 108 helpful votes

�For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in
him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the
world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Proverbs 18:1-24 ESV / 108 helpful votes

Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound
judgment. A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his
opinion. When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes
disgrace. The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a
bubbling brook. It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the
righteous of justice. ...

Titus 2:12 ESV / 107 helpful votes

Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-
controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that
you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan
may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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