Verses
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- Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
- A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
- Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
- Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
- Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. …
- The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. …
- Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good. …
- A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.
- A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies. …
- Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.