Genesis 18:9

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.

that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,

when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and knows nothing.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.

He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

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

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”

Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”

Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words.

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”

Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.

Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?

However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

All the assembly of those who had come back out of the captivity made temporary shelters, and lived in the temporary shelters; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.

She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands.

I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.