Genesis 3:16
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16 He said to the woman:
I will intensify your labor pains;
you will bear children in anguish.(A)
Your desire(B) will be for your husband,
yet he will rule over you.
1 Corinthians 11:3
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3 But I want you to know that Christ is the head(A) of every man, and the man is the head of the woman,[a](B) and God is the head of Christ.(C)
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- 1 Corinthians 11:3 Or the husband is the head of the wife
1 Corinthians 11:7-9
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7 A man, in fact, should not cover his head, because he is God’s image(A) and glory,(B) but woman is man’s glory. 8 For man did not come from woman, but woman came from man.(C) 9 And man was not created for woman, but woman for man.
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1 Corinthians 11:11-12
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11 In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, and man is not independent of woman. 12 For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman, and all things come from God.(A)
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Colossians 3:18
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Christ in Your Home
18 Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.(A)
Titus 2:4-5
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4 so they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, homemakers, kind, and submissive(A) to their husbands, so that God’s message(B) will not be slandered.
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1 Peter 3:1-6
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Wives and Husbands
3 In the same way, wives,(A) submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message,(B) they may be won over[a](C) without a message by the way their wives live(D) 2 when they observe your pure, reverent lives.(E) 3 Your beauty should not consist of outward things like elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold ornaments[b] or fine clothes.(F) 4 Instead, it should consist of what is inside[c] the heart(G) with the imperishable quality of a gentle(H) and quiet(I) spirit, which is very valuable in God’s eyes. 5 For in the past, the holy(J) women who put their hope(K) in God also beautified themselves in this way, submitting to their own husbands, 6 just as Sarah(L) obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You have become her children when you do what is good and are not frightened by anything alarming.(M)
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- 1 Peter 3:1 Lit may be gained
- 1 Peter 3:3 Lit and of putting around of gold items
- 1 Peter 3:4 Lit Instead, the hidden man of
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