In the biblical view, a wife is a cherished partner and helper, bringing joy and companionship to her husband. According to Proverbs, finding a wife is a blessing from the Lord, as stated in Proverbs 18:22. The New Testament teaches that husbands and wives are to love and respect each other, as seen in Ephesians 5:33 and 1 Peter 3:7, where husbands are called to honor their wives. The importance of marital relationships is also emphasized in Hebrews 13:4, and Proverbs 31:10 describes the virtuous wife as a treasure to be highly valued.
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Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.