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- 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. …
- 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.”
- 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.” …
- 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.
- A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
- Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
- He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
- 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.
- 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.
- Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
- 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.
- Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: …
- A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies. …
- 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. …
- 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— …
- Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters. …
- Now, O son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them …
- 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. …
- 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.
- 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, …
- In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.
- Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as to a father. Treat younger men as brothers, …
- 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.
- Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good. …