Biblical Concept: Women and Houses

NAS Titus 2:3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips, nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, 4 that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be dishonored.

NAS 1 Timothy 5:13 And at the same time they also learn to be idle, as they go around from house to house; and not merely idle, but also gossips and busybodies, talking about things not proper to mention. 14 Therefore, I want younger widows to get  married, bear children, keep house, and give the enemy no occasion for reproach;

NAS Proverbs 31:27 She looks well to the ways of her household, And does not eat the bread of idleness.

NAS Proverbs 31:15 She rises also while it is still night, And gives food to her household, And portions to her maidens.

NAS Proverbs 31:16 She considers a field and buys it; From her earnings she plants a vineyard.

NAS Proverbs 9:1 Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars; 2 She has prepared her food, she has mixed her wine; She has also set her table; 3 She has sent out her maidens, she calls From the tops of the heights of the city: 4 "Whoever is naive, let him turn in here!" To him who lacks understanding she says, 5 "Come, eat of my food, And drink of the wine I have mixed.

NAS Proverbs 14:1 The wise woman builds her house, But the foolish tears it down with her own hands.

NAS Proverbs 24:3 By wisdom a house is built, And by understanding it is established;

NAS Ecclesiastes 10:18 Through indolence the rafters sag, and through slackness the house leaks.

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