Wife
57 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
23 sections
- Bath-Sheba
- Beloved, by Isaac
- Beloved, by Jacob
- Called: Desire of the Eyes
- Contentious, Zipporah
- Domestic Duties of
- Fruitful Vine
- Hated
- Help
- Idolatrous, Solomon's Wives
- Incorruptible, Vashti
- Jezebel
- Loyal
- Obtained by Violence
- Potiphar's
- Procured
- Purchased
- Relation of, to Husband
- Tactful Abigail
- The Judgment Denounced Against Eve
- Unclassified Scriptures Relating To
- Unfaithful
- Vows of
Bath-Sheba
- 2 Samuel 11:2–5 One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing— a very beautiful woman. …
Beloved, by Isaac
- Genesis 24:67 And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
Beloved, by Jacob
- Genesis 29:30 Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
Called: Desire of the Eyes
- Ezekiel 24:16 “Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.
Contentious, Zipporah
- Exodus 4:25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
Domestic Duties of
- Genesis 18:6 So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”
- Proverbs 31:13–27 She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. …
Fruitful Vine
- Psalm 128:3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
Hated
- Genesis 29:31–33 When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren. …
Help
- Genesis 2:18 The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”
- Genesis 2:20 The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
Idolatrous, Solomon's Wives
- 1 Kings 11:4–8 For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been. …
- Nehemiah 13:26 Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel— yet foreign women drew him into sin.
Incorruptible, Vashti
- Esther 1:10–22 On the seventh day, when the king’s heart was merry with wine, he ordered the seven eunuchs who served him — Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas — …
Jezebel
- 1 Kings 21:1 Some time after these events, Naboth the Jezreelite owned a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
- 2 Kings 9:30–37 Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window. …
Loyal
- Genesis 31:14–16 And Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father’s house? …
Obtained by Violence
- Judges 21:1 Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”
Potiphar's
- Genesis 39:7 and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”
Procured
- Genesis 24:1 By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.
- Genesis 34:4–10 So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.” …
- Genesis 38:6 Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
Purchased
- Genesis 29:1 Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.
- Exodus 21:7–11 And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do. …
- Ruth 4:10 Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You …
Relation of, to Husband
- Genesis 2:18 The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”
- Genesis 2:23–24 And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.” …
- 1 Corinthians 11:3–12 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. …
Tactful Abigail
- 1 Samuel 25:3 His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.
- 1 Samuel 25:14–42 Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s young men informed Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he screamed at them. …
The Judgment Denounced Against Eve
- 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.”
Unclassified Scriptures Relating To
- Genesis 2:18 The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”
- Genesis 2:23–24 And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.” …
- 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.” …
- Psalm 128:3–4 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table. …
- 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. …
- Proverbs 21:9 Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
- Proverbs 21:19 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 30:21–23 Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: …
- Proverbs 31:10–31 A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies. …
- 1 Corinthians 7:2–6 But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. …
- 1 Corinthians 7:10–14 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. …
- 1 Corinthians 7:16 How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
- 1 Corinthians 7:27–29 Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you free of commitment? Do not look for a wife. …
- 1 Corinthians 7:32–34 I want you to be free from concern. The unmarried man is concerned about the work of the Lord, how he can please the Lord. …
- 1 Corinthians 7:38–40 So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better. …
- 1 Corinthians 11:3 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.
- 1 Corinthians 11:7–9 A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. …
- 1 Corinthians 11:11–12 In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. …
- 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. …
- Ephesians 5:22–25 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. …
- Ephesians 5:28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
- Ephesians 5:31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
- Ephesians 5:33 Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
- Colossians 3:18–19 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. …
- 1 Timothy 3:11 In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.
- 1 Timothy 5:9–10 A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, faithful to her husband, …
- 1 Timothy 5:14 So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.
- 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. …
- 1 Peter 3:1–7 Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives …
Unfaithful
- Numbers 5:14–31 and if a feeling of jealousy comes over her husband and he suspects his wife who has defiled herself— or if a feeling of jealousy comes over him and he suspects her even though she has not defiled herself— …
Vows of
- Numbers 30:6–16 If a woman marries while under a vow or rash promise by which she has bound herself, …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.