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17 Bible Verses About Wives

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  • Genesis 2:24 describes a husband and wife as “one flesh,” and Jesus quotes it in Mark 10 when asked about divorce.
  • Malachi 2:14 calls a wife “your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant,” with the Lord as witness.
  • Proverbs 31:10-31 describes a wife who trades, buys land, runs a household and gives to the poor, and says she is praised for fearing the Lord.
  • Ephesians 5:22 follows 5:21, “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ”; the Danvers Statement and the CBE statement read the passage differently.
  • 1 Peter 3:1 addresses wives whose husbands do not believe, and 1 Corinthians 7:14 addresses a believing husband or wife married to an unbeliever.

The Bible speaks of a wife as her husband’s partner, joined to him as “one flesh” in a covenant that God witnesses. Those words come from Genesis 2:24 and Malachi 2:14, and Proverbs 31:10-31 adds a long portrait of a wife of noble character. The New Testament letters give wives and husbands instructions side by side (Ephesians 5:22-33; Colossians 3:18-19; 1 Peter 3:1-7). In each passage the instruction to wives is followed by one to husbands. The wife in creation…

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Bibliography (Click to show)

Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. The Danvers Statement. cbmw.org

Christians for Biblical Equality. Men, Women and Biblical Equality. cbeinternational.org

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