Priscilla & Aquilla A wonderfully effective couple. Read about them in
Acts 8.1,2 & 23-28.
Prov 21:9 "Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house
with a quarrelsome wife."
Prov 21:19 "Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and
ill-tempered wife."
Prov 25:24 "Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a
quarrel
some wife."
Prov 31:10 "A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far
more than rubies.
Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders
of the
land." 31 "Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her
praise
at the city gate."
Prov 14:1 "The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish
one
tears hers down."
Prov 19:13-14 "A foolish son is his father's ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like
a
constant dripping. Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife
is
from the LORD."
Prov 12:4 "A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful
wife i
s like decay in his bones."
Psa 128:3 "Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your sons
will be
like olive shoots around your table."
Titus 2:3-5 "Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live,
not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4 Then
they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be
self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to
their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God."
Soloman: 1 Ki 11:4 "As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other
gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of
David his father had been."
Abigail prevented David from slaughtering Nabal and his family 1 Samuel 25.
Jezebel (ugh) 1 Kings 21:7 "Jezebel his wife said, "Is this how you act as
king
over Israel? Get up and eat! Cheer up. I'll get you the vineyard of Naboth the
Jezreelite." —And she had Naboth murdered.
Consider Queen Vashti, and Esther....in the book of Esther.
How about Delilah and what she did to Samson! Judges 16.
