Agreeable
Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is ruin to
his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
Proverbs 21:9 It is better to live in
a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
Proverbs 21:19 It is better to live
in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.
Excellent
Proverbs 31:10 An excellent wife who can
find? She is far more precious than jewels.
Faithful & Trustworthy
1 Timothy 3:11 Even so must their wives be
grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Gracious & Honorable
Proverbs 11:16 A gracious woman gets honor,
and violent men get riches.
Helpful
Genesis 2:18, 22-24 Then the LORD God said, “It
is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit
for him.” … And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he
made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then
the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she
shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of
Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast
to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Kindhearted & Generous
Proverbs 31:20-21 She opens her hand
to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy. She is not afraid of
snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet.
Proverbs 31:26 She opens her mouth with
wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
Submissive & Respectful
1 Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know,
that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and
the head of Christ is God.
Ephesians 5:22-23, 33 Wives, submit to your
own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the
wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and
is himself its Savior… However, let each one of you love his wife as
himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Colossians 3:18 Wives, submit to your
husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Titus 2:2-5 Older men are to be
sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in
steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in
behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach
what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and
children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind,
and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be
reviled.
1 Peter 3:1-2 Likewise, wives, be
subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the
word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their
wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct.
Wise
Proverbs 14:1 The wisest of
women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.
Beautiful Women in the Bible
Genesis 12:11, 14 When he was about to enter
Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in
appearance … When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was
very beautiful.
Genesis 24:16 The young woman was
very attractive in appearance, a maiden whom no man had known. She went
down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.
Ruth 1:16-17 But Ruth
said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where
you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be
my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I
be buried. May the LORD do so to me and more also if anything but death
parts me from you.”
Esther 2:7 He was bringing up
Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither
father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to
look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own
daughter.
Song of Solomon 4:1 Behold, you are
beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind
your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes
of Gilead.