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Wives: Not to Be Selected from among the Ungodly

Gen 24:3; 26:34,35; 28:1

Wives: Duties Of, to Their Husbands

To love them

Tts 2:4

To reverence them

Eph 5:33

To be faithful to them

1Cr 7:3-5,10

To be subject to them

Gen 3:16; Eph 5:22,24; 1Pe 3:1

To obey them

1Cr 14:34; Tts 2:5

To remain with them for life

Rom 7:2,3

Wives: Should Be Adorned

Not with ornaments

1Ti 2:9; 1Pe 3:3

With modesty and sobriety

1Ti 2:9

With a meek and quiet spirit

1Pe 3:4,5

With good works

1Ti 2:10; 5:10

Wives: Good

Are from the Lord

Pro 19:14

Are a token of the favour of God

Pro 18:22

Are a blessing to husbands

Pro 12:4; 31:10,12

Bring honour on husbands

Pro 31:23

Secure confidence of husbands

Pro 31:11

Are praised by husbands

Pro 31:28

Are diligent and prudent

Pro 31:13-27

Are benevolent to the poor

Pro 31:20

Duty of, to unbelieving husbands

1Cr 7:13,14,16; 1Pe 3:1,2

Should be silent in the Churches

1Cr 14:34

Wives: Should seek religious instruction from their husbands

1Cr 14:35

Wives: Of Ministers Should Be Exemplary

1Ti 3:11

Wives: Good-Exemplified

Wife of Manoah

Jdg 13:10

Orpah and Ruth

Rth 1:4,8

Abigail

1Sa 25:3

Esther

Est 2:15-17

Elizabeth

Luk 1:6

Priscilla

Act 18:2,26

Sarah

1Pe 3:6

Wives: Bad-Exemplified

Samson's wife

Jdg 14:15-17

Michal

2Sa 6:16

Jezebel

1Ki 21:25

Zeresh

Est 5:14

Job's wife

Job 2:9

Herodias

Mar 6:17

Sapphira

Act 5:1,2

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