A list of Scripture on the topic of wives arranged in an outline, topical order. The Bible has a lot to say about wives, It emphasizes their unique value and importance as well as detailing their distinctive responsibilities and duties to their families and (more importantly) to God. The following is a brief outline of these biblical teachings:

1. Duties:
   1. Love her husband
      1. Titus 2:4, “to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be dishonored.”
   2. Respect her husband
      1. Ephesians 5:33, “Nevertheless let each individual among you also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see to it that she respect her husband.”
2. Miscellaneous
   1. From the Lord
      1. Proverbs 19:14, “House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.”
   2. A blessing to a husband
      1. Proverbs 12:4, “An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who shames him is as rottenness in his bones.”
3. Relationship to Husband
   1. Ephesians 5:22, ” Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”
   2. Ephesians 5:33, “Nevertheless let each individual among you also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see to it that she respect her husband.”
   3. 1 Peter 3:1, “In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives.”
4. Sexual Duties of
   1. 1 Cor. 7:3, “Let the husband fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.”
5. Value of
   1. Proverbs 31:10-12, “An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels. 11 The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. 12 She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.”