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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…