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Wives

Not to be selected from among the ungodly - Ge 24:3; 26:34,35; 28:1

DUTIES OF, TO THEIR HUSBANDS

• To love them
- Tit 2:4
• To reverence them
- Eph 5:33
• To be faithful to them
- 1Co 7:3-5,10
• To be subject to them
- Ge 3:16; Eph 5:22,24; 1Pe 3:1
• To obey them
- 1Co 14:34; Tit 2:5
• To remain with them for life
- Ro 7:2,3

SHOULD BE ADORNED

• Not with ornaments
- 1Ti 2:9; 1Pe 3:3
• With modesty and sobriety
- 1Ti 2:9
• With a meek and quiet spirit
- 1Pe 3:4,5
• With good works
- 1Ti 2:10; 5:10

GOOD

• Are from the Lord
- Pr 19:14
• Are a token of the favour of God
- Pr 18:22
• Are a blessing to husbands
- Pr 12:4; 31:10,12
• Bring honour on husbands
- Pr 31:23
• Secure confidence of husbands
- Pr 31:11
• Are praised by husbands
- Pr 31:28
• Are diligent and prudent
- Pr 31:13-27
• Are benevolent to the poor
- Pr 31:20
• Duty of, to unbelieving husbands
- 1Co 7:13,14,16; 1Pe 3:1,2
• Should be silent in the Churches
- 1Co 14:34

Should seek religious instruction from their husbands - 1Co 14:35

Of ministers should be exemplary - 1Ti 3:11

Good-Exemplified

• Wife of Manoah
- Jud 13:10
• Orpah and Ruth
- Ru 1:4,8
• Abigail
- 1Sa 25:3
• Esther
- Es 2:15-17
• Elizabeth
- Lu 1:6
• Priscilla
- Ac 18:2,26
• Sarah
- 1Pe 3:6

Bad-Exemplified

• Samson's wife
- Jud 14:15-17
• Michal
- 2Sa 6:16
• Jezebel
- 1Ki 21:25
• Zeresh
- Es 5:14
• Job's wife
- Job 2:9
• Herodias
- Mr 6:17
• Sapphira
- Ac 5:1,2
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