"Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless…

"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 saviour of the body. Therefore as the…

"But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world,…

"And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small. And the saying pleased the king…

"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. The wife hath not…

"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 of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.…

"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…

"A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD" - Proverbs 19:13-14 KJV

"Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee" - Genesis 3:16 KJV

"Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God" -…

"For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear: For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat; For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid…

"And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave…

"Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask…

"Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man. Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have…

"The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love…

"So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better. The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she…

"Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD" - Psalms 128:3-4 KJV

"It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house" - Proverbs 25:24 KJV

"A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones" - Proverbs 12:4 KJV

"And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him" - Genesis 2:18 KJV

"For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh" - Ephesians 5:31 KJV

"For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife" - 1 Corinthians 7:16 KJV

"Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband" - Ephesians 5:33 KJV

"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them" - Colossians 3:18-19 KJV

"But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God" - 1 Corinthians 11:3 KJV

"I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully" - 1 Timothy 5:14 KJV

"Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD" - Proverbs 18:22 KJV

"Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things" - 1 Timothy 3:11 KJV

"Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands" - Proverbs 14:1 KJV

"So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself" - Ephesians 5:28 KJV