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Genesis 2:18, 21–24
The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.” / So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh. / For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
Esther 1:20–22
The edict the king issues will be heard throughout his vast kingdom—and so all women, from the least to the greatest, will honor their husbands.” / The king and his princes were pleased with this counsel; so the king did as Memucan had advised. / He sent letters to all the provinces of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, proclaiming that every man should be master of his own household.
Proverbs 11:16, 22
A gracious woman attains honor, but ruthless men gain only wealth. / Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
Proverbs 12:4
A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
Proverbs 14:1
Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
Proverbs 18:22
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
Proverbs 19:13, 14
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping. / Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Proverbs 21:9, 19
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife. / Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
Proverbs 25:24
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Proverbs 27:15, 16
A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike— / restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.
Proverbs 30:21–23
Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: / a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food, / an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.
Proverbs 31:10–31
A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies. / The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he lacks nothing of value. / She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.
Ecclesiastes 7:26–28
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared. / “Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation. / While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.
Isaiah 3:16–24
The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles— / the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.” / In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents;
Isaiah 32:9–12
Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters. / In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive. / Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.
Ezekiel 13:17–23
Now, O son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them / and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their wrists and make veils for the heads of people of every height, in order to ensnare their souls. Will you ensnare the souls of My people but preserve your own? / You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived.
1 Corinthians 11:3–15
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. / Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. / And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved.
1 Corinthians 14:34, 35
Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. / If they wish to inquire about something, they are to ask their own husbands at home; for it is dishonorable for a woman to speak in the church.
1 Timothy 2:9–15
Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, / but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God. / A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.
1 Timothy 3:11
In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.
1 Timothy 5:1–16
Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as to a father. Treat younger men as brothers, / older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity. / Honor the widows who are truly widows.
2 Timothy 3:6, 7
They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions, / who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
Titus 2:3–5
Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good. / In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children, / to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.