Popular Bible Verses about Wives - Page 8

Found 137 Verses (from 71)

2 Chronicles 9:7

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How happy your people must be! How happy your officials, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom! NIV

Happy are your wives and men, and happy are these your servants who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom! AMP

Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom. KJV

1 Kings 11:8

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He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods. NIV

And he did so for all of his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods. AMP

And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods. KJV

Judges 8:30

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He had seventy sons of his own, for he had many wives. NIV

Now Gideon had seventy sons born to him, for he had many wives. AMP

And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. KJV

1 Samuel 1:2

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He had two wives; one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none. NIV

He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other named Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none. AMP

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

So that is what the Benjamites did. While the young women were dancing, each man caught one and carried her off to be his wife. Then they returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and settled in them. NIV

And the Benjamites did so and took wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off; then they went and returned to their inheritance and repaired the towns and dwelt in them. AMP

And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them. KJV

1 Timothy 4:7

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Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. NIV

But refuse and avoid irreverent legends (profane and impure and godless fictions, mere grandmothers' tales) and silly myths, and express your disapproval of them. Train yourself toward godliness (piety), [keeping yourself spiritually fit]. AMP

But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. KJV

Ephesians 5:28

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In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. NIV

Even so husbands should love their wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. AMP

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. KJV

Colossians 3:19

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Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. NIV

Husbands, love your wives [be affectionate and sympathetic with them] and do not be harsh or bitter or resentful toward them. AMP

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. KJV

Deuteronomy 21:15

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If someone has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love NIV

If a man has two wives, one loved and the other disliked, and they both have borne him children, and if the firstborn son is the son of the one who is disliked AMP

If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: KJV

Matthew 19:8

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Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning." NIV

He said to them, Because of the hardness (stubbornness and perversity) of your hearts Moses permitted you to dismiss and repudiate and divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been so [ordained]. AMP

He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. KJV