REFERENCE WIVES
Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him
Genesis 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping .
Proverbs 19:14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD .
Proverbs 31:11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
Proverbs 31:12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of his life.
I Corinthians 7:3-5 [7:3] Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband . [7:4] The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband : and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. [7:5] Defraud ye not one the other , except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
I Corinthians 7:34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
I Corinthians 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
Ephesians 5:22-24 [22] Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord . [23] For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. [24] Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing .
Ephesians 5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband .
Colossians 3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Titus 2:3-5 [2:3] The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; [2:4] That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, [2:5] To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
I Peter 3:1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands ; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
I Peter 3:5-6 [3:5] For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands : [3:6] Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord : whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.