D. Building Bricks—

Wives
a. Submission
"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and He is the savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.”
Ephesians 5:22-24
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.”
Col. 3:18
“Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation [lifestyle] of the wives; while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement [great fear].”
1 Peter 3:1-6
Today, in our society women are usurping God's role for men and missing their role before God.
b. Deportment
"While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.”
1 Peter 3:2
c. Appearance
"Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”
1 Peter 3:3, 4
“In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array.”
1 Tim. 2:9
It is very important to say here that a tidy, clean, attractive wife welcoming her husband home from work is very important, but the essential part is the inward meekness and quiet spirit.
d. Keepers of Home "That they may teach the younger women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children.”
Titus 2:4
“She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.”
Prov. 31:14, 15
e. Love Husband and Family
(1) Good Wife
"Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do' him good and not evil all the days of her life. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.”
Prov. 31:10-12, 23
(2) Good Woman
"Strength and honor are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.”
Prov. 31:25
(3) Good Neighbor
"She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.”
Prov. 31:20
(4) Good Christian
"Strength and honor are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.”
Prov. 31:25, 30
Husbands
a. Love (Spiritual, emotional, physical)
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”
Ephesians 5:25, 28
“Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.”
Col. 3:19
“Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
Heb. 13:4
“Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.”
1 Cor. 7:2, 3
b. Dwell and Know
"Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”
1 Peter 3:7
c. Provide
"But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
1 Tim. 5:8
d. Manage
"One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity.”
1 Tim. 3:4