The heart of her husband has confidence ¹  in her, and he has no lack of gain. ² 

Her husband is well-known ¹  in the city gate ²  when he sits with the elders ³  of the land.

Her children rise up ¹  and call her blessed, her husband ²  also praises her:

and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, by whom ¹  Jesus was born, who is called Christ. ² 

He ¹  said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.” ² 

because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body.

But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your ¹  wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

“Any vow or sworn obligation that would bring affliction to her, ¹  her husband can confirm or nullify. ² 

You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

So then, ¹  if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her ²  husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.

It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, ¹  and perform the duty of a brother-in-law. ² 

But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, then she ¹  must go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!”

For my husband ¹  is not at home; ²  he has gone on a journey of some distance.

Wail ¹  like a young virgin ²  clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of ³  her husband-to-be. ⁴ 

To the married I give this command – not I, but the Lord ¹  – a wife should not divorce a husband

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. ¹  Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Sometime later ¹  Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, so she and her two sons were left alone.

“‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, ¹  when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,