Bible Verses About Wives
125 Scriptures on Wives

1 Chronicles 14:3

David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

1 Chronicles 4:5

Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

1 Chronicles 7:4

With them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.

1 Chronicles 8:8

Shaharaim became the father of children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.

1 Corinthians 14:34

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.

1 Corinthians 7:29

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

1 Kings 11:3

He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

1 Kings 11:4

For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

1 Kings 11:8

So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.

1 Kings 20:3

'Your silver and your gold is mine. Your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.'"

1 Kings 20:5

The messengers came again, and said, "Ben Hadad says, 'I sent indeed to you, saying, "You shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children;

1 Kings 20:7

Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, "Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn't deny him."

1 Peter 3:1

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

1 Peter 3:7

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

1 Samuel 1:2

and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

1 Samuel 25:43

David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.

1 Samuel 27:3

David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

1 Samuel 30:18

David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.

1 Samuel 30:3

When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.

1 Samuel 30:5

David's two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

1 Timothy 3:11

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

1 Timothy 4:7

But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

2 Chronicles 11:21

Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

2 Chronicles 11:23

He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought [for them] many wives.

2 Chronicles 13:21

But Abijah grew mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.

2 Chronicles 20:13

All Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

2 Chronicles 21:14

behold, the LORD will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;

2 Chronicles 21:17

and they came up against Judah, and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

2 Chronicles 24:3

Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he became the father of sons and daughters.

2 Chronicles 29:9

For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

2 Chronicles 31:18

and those who were reckoned by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their office of trust they sanctified themselves in holiness.

2 Kings 24:15

He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

2 Kings 4:1

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared the LORD. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."

2 Samuel 12:11

"This is what the LORD says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

2 Samuel 12:8

I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.

2 Samuel 19:5

Joab came into the house to the king, and said, "You have shamed this day the faces of all your servants, who this day have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;

2 Samuel 2:2

So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

2 Samuel 5:13

David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

Acts 21:5

When it happened that we had accomplished the days, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.

Additions to Esther 3:20

When the king's decree, which he shall make, is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small."

Additions to Esther 6:6

"Therefore have we commanded that all those who are signified in writing to you by Haman, who is ordained over these affairs and is next unto us, shall all, with their wives and children, be utterly destroyed by the sword of their enemies, without all mercy and pity, by the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar of this present year:

Bel and the Dragon 1:10

Now the priests of Bel were seventy, besides their wives and children. And the king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel.

Bel and the Dragon 1:15

Now in the night the priests with their wives and children came, as they were accustomed to do, and they ate and drank it all.

Bel and the Dragon 1:21

and he took the priests with their wives and children, who showed him the private doors where they came in and consumed such things as were on the table.

Colossians 3:18

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.

Daniel 5:2

Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.

Daniel 5:23

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.

Scriptures on Wives