Genesis 3:16
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16 He said to the woman:
I will intensify your labor pains;
you will bear children with painful effort.(A)
Your desire(B) will be for your husband,
yet he will rule over you.
1 Corinthians 11:7-9
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7 A man should not cover his head, because he is the image(A) and glory of God.(B) So too, woman is the glory of man. 8 For man did not come from woman, but woman came from man.(C) 9 Neither was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for the sake of 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, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.(A)
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Titus 2:4-5
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4 so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, workers at home, kind, and in submission(A) to their husbands, so that God’s word(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 word,(B) they may be won over(C) without a word by the way their wives live(D) 2 when they observe your pure, reverent lives.(E) 3 Don’t let your beauty consist of outward things like elaborate hairstyles and wearing gold jewelry or fine clothes,(F) 4 but rather what is inside the heart[a](G)—the imperishable quality of a gentle(H) and quiet(I) spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 5 For in the past, the holy(J) women who put their hope(K) in God also adorned 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 do not fear any intimidation.(M)
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- 3:4 Or rather, the hidden person of the heart
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