Order and Purpose Of A Woman As A Wife Flashcards
Learn what it is to think and be as a wife as per the scriptures
2 Esdras 14:34
[34]Therefore if so be that ye will subdue your own understanding, and reform your hearts, ye shall be kept alive and after death ye shall obtain mercy.
put aside your own understanding. reform your understanding using the scriptures
Proverbs 3:5
[5]Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Trust TMH and what the scriptures say
(Precept) 2Esdras 14:34
Judith 8:14,16
[14]For ye cannot find the depth of the heart of man, neither can ye perceive the things that he thinketh: then how can ye search out God, that hath made all these things, and know his mind, or comprehend his purpose? Nay, my brethren, provoke not the Lord our God to anger.
[16]Do not bind the counsels of the Lord our God: for God is not as man, that he may be threatened; neither is he as the son of man, that he should be wavering.
There is no equality between God and man, or man and woman
Ezekiel 34:31
[31]And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.
God is dealing with the men
(Precept) Proverbs 8:4, Deuteronomy 28:15
Proverbs 8:4
[4]Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Voice of GOD is for men to hear
(Precept)Ezekiel 34:31, Deuteronomy 28:15
Deuteronomy 28:15
[15]But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
The voice of God is in HIS commandments and statutes
(Precept) Proverbs 8:4, Ezekiel 34:31
Jeremiah 31:22
[22]How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
prophesied curse that women will be put a head of men for our further destruction
(precept) Isaiah 3:12
Isaiah 3:12
[12]As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Prophesied Women would lead and cause error in the children being brought up bc women are not meant to rule (precept) Jeremiah 31:22
Acts 8:26
[26]And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
Acts 8:31
[31]And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
Humble yourself to be taught the laws by my husband and those above me
1 Corinthians 11:3
[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.
the Head of the wife is her husband. my lord is my saviour/leader/teacher and whom I obey- Order
(Precept) 1 Corinthians 11:8
1 Corinthians 11:8
[8]For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
Order- I am to serve and obey my lord/husband (precept) 1 Corinthians 11:3
Genesis 2:18
[18]And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
GOD made women to serve and obey men. a wife to serve and obey her husband. I was made to serve and obey my husband
Genesis 2:7
[7]And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
breathed life into them= wisdom/commandments
(precepts) WOS 7:24-25, Gen 2:15
Wisdom of Solomon 7:24-25
[24]For wisdom is more moving than any motion: she passeth and goeth through all things by reason of her pureness.
[25]For she is the breath of the power of God, and a pure influence flowing from the glory of the Almighty: therefore can no defiled thing fall into her.
wisdom flows more fluidly than any other element in motion
breath of life=commandments=wisdom
(precept) Genesis 2:7
Genesis 2:15
[15]And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
GOD gave Adam work to do. Dress and keep the garden =teach the commandments
Genesis 2:22-23
[22]And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
[23]And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Eve was made FROM Adam and….. (Precept) 3:20 he was given the the authority to NAME her Eve
Genesis 3:16
[16]Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Labor pains….”What my husband wants should be what is most important to me”…reinforcing order
Ecclesiasticus 33:17-22
[17]Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.
[18]Hear me, O ye great men of the people, and hearken with your ears, ye rulers of the congregation.
[19]Give not thy son and wife, thy brother and friend, power over thee while thou livest, and give not thy goods to another: lest it repent thee, and thou intreat for the same again.
[20]As long as thou livest and hast breath in thee, give not thyself over to any.
[21]For better it is that thy children should seek to thee, than that thou shouldest stand to their courtesy.
[22]In all thy works keep to thyself the preeminence; leave not a stain in thine honour.
man studying scriptures is to teach others. don’t give anyone anything to hold over your head…man is not at wife and children’s back and call; but wife is at husbands beck and call
Preeminence
the fact of surpassing all others; superiority. Man has the preeminence in the household and over his family
Psalms 82:5-6
[5]They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
[6]I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Things are not in their right order due to sin, men are to be gods on earth
Ecclesiasticus 36:24-25
[24]He that getteth a wife beginneth a possession, a help like unto himself, and a pillar of rest.
[25]Where no hedge is, there the possession is spoiled: and he that hath no wife will wander up and down mourning.
Possession =no percentage
Hedge= husband as leadership and protection
Spoiled= destroyed
Ecclesiasticus 25:24-25
[24]Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die.
[25]Give the water no passage; neither a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad.
We all die because of the sin of a woman. Let none of the vain conceit flourish. Gad= run your mouth
Numbers 30:3-4,6,13
[3]If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;
[4]And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
[6]And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
[13]Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
A husband can stop a wife’s prayer. Describes the power a husband has over his wife. Husband can pray against his wife’s prayer
1 Timothy 6:4-5
[4]He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
[5]Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Believing someone is guilty of sin without proof
