What does the Bible say about disobedient wives?
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The Bible calls wives to honor Christ through respectful, faithful submission to their husbands, while also holding husbands accountable to love, understanding, and sacrificial care. Ephesians 5:22 and Colossians 3:18 place a wife’s submission within her devotion to the Lord, not beneath sinful or abusive demands. First Peter 3:1 and 3:6 commend godly conduct, courage, and a gentle hope in God, even when a husband is not obedient to the word. Yet 1 Peter 3:7 commands husbands to live considerately with their wives as fellow heirs of grace. Titus 2:3-5 encourages mature women to teach faithful domestic godliness. Marriage is to be honored by both spouses, as Hebrews 13:4 teaches.
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- Ephesians 5:22 4 votes
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
- 1 Peter 3:7 4 votes
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
- 1 Peter 3:1 4 votes
In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,
- Hebrews 13:4 3 votes
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- 1 Peter 3:6 3 votes
So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are if you do well and are not put in fear by any terror.
- Proverbs 21:9 3 votes
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
- Titus 2:3-5 2 votes
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good, that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.
- Ephesians 2:2 2 votes
in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.
- Colossians 3:18 2 votes
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
- Leviticus 20:13 2 votes
“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves.
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