- Genesis 2:24 (NIV):
“That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.”
- Ephesians 5:31 (NIV):
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
- Matthew 19:5 (NIV):
“and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?”
- Mark 10:7 (NIV):
“‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,”
- 1 Corinthians 7:10-11 (NIV):
- “To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.”*
- Proverbs 18:22 (NIV):
“He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord.”
- Proverbs 12:4 (NIV):
“A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.”
- 1 Timothy 5:14 (NIV):
“So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander.”
- 1 Corinthians 7:39 (NIV):
“A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord.”
- Ruth 1:16 (NIV):
“But Ruth replied, ‘Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.'”
- Genesis 24:58 (NIV):
“So they called Rebekah and asked her, ‘Will you go with this man?’ ‘I will go,’ she said.”
- Proverbs 19:14 (NIV):
“Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.”
- Ephesians 5:22-24 (NIV):
“Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.”
- Colossians 3:18 (NIV):
“Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.”
- 1 Peter 3:1-2 (NIV):
“Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.”
- Titus 2:4-5 (NIV):
“Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.”
- 1 Corinthians 11:3 (NIV):
“But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.”
- 1 Corinthians 7:3 (NIV):
“The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.”
- Titus 2:3-5 (NIV):
“Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.”
- 1 Peter 3:7 (NIV):
“Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.”
- 1 Corinthians 7:33-34 (NIV):
“But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife— and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord’s affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world—how she can please her husband.”
- Ephesians 5:25 (NIV):
“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her”
- 1 Peter 3:5-6 (NIV):
“For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.”
- Proverbs 31:10 (NIV):
“A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.”
- 1 Corinthians 11:8-9 (NIV):
“For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.”
- 1 Corinthians 11:11-12 (NIV):
“In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.”
- Proverbs 31:26 (NIV):
“She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.”
- 1 Timothy 2:9-10 (NIV):
“I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.”
- 1 Timothy 2:11-12 (NIV):
“A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.”
- 1 Corinthians 11:7 (NIV):
“A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.”