Being a wife and mother can be challenging, yet rewarding. The Bible has designed specific roles to the wife and the mother to pursue and live by which will bring forth an abundance of blessings to their marriage and family.

2. The Bible’s view of women
1. Women bear the stamp of God’s own image
So God created man in His own image; in the
image of God He created him; male and
female He created them. Gen 1:27

3. The Bible’s view of women
2. Marriage a joint Inheritance
‘..heirs together of the grace of life’1 Peter 3:7
Respected partners and cherished
companions
‘..bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.
Gen 2:24

4. The Bible’s view of women
3. Parenthood a partnership
‘…revere his mother and his father. ’ Lev19:3
Equally honored by children
‘.. children to honor both father and mother.’
Ex 20:12

5. The Bible’s view of women
4. By no means marginalized or relegated to a
second class status
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is
neither slave nor free, there is neither male
nor female; for you are alone in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:28

6. The Bible’s view of women
5. Virtuous women – valued as priceless and
celebrated
Proverbs 31

7. The Bible’s view of women
6. Wisdom is personified as a woman Prov 8
New Testament: Church as the Bride of Christ

8. God’s Design for Wives & Mothers
1. Designed to Love
I Cor 13: 4-7 __is patient, __ is kind. __ does not
envy, __does not boast, __is not proud. 5__ does not
dishonor others, __is not self-seeking, __is not easily
angered, __keeps no record of wrongs. 6__ does not delight
in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7__ always
protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

9. God’s Design for Wives & Mothers
2. Designed to be a helper
Helper : ‘ayzer’ one who is sent to support
and aid another
It is not good that man should be alone; I will
make him a helper comparable to him.
Genesis 2:18

10. God’s Design for Wives & Mothers
3. Designed to be submissive
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is
head of the church; and He is the Savior of the
body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to
Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in
everything. Eph 5:22-24

11. God’s Design : 3.What Submission is NOT
a. Does not mean that you are a second-class
Christian
Gal. 3:28
1 Peter 3:7

12. God’s Design : 3.What Submission is NOT
God and Christ have roles of authority and
submission, yet they are one in essence as
God. So it is with husband and wife. Their
roles differ, but in essential quality and
value, they are equal.
- John
MacArthur

13. God’s Design : 3.What Submission is NOT
b. Does not mean that you must be your
husband’s personal slave
For you, brethren, have been called to liberty;
only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the
flesh, but through love serve one another.
Galatians 5:13

14. God’s Design: 3.What Submission does mean
a. An attitude of love, respect, and gentleness
in the way you speak and act toward your
husband
Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so
love his own wife as himself, and let the
wife see that she respects her husband.
Ephesians 5:33

15. God’s Design: 3.What Submission does mean
b. Subduing pride and self
Submitting to one another in the fear of God
Ephesians 5:21

16. God’s Design: 3.What Submission does mean
c. Allow your husband to lead
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as
to the Lord. Ephesians. 5:22

17. God’s Design for Wives & Mothers
4. Designed to be a companion
Yet she is your companion and your wife by
covenant. Malachi 2:14

18. God’s Design for Wives & Mothers
5. Designed to be virtuous:
Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above
rubies. The heart of her husband safely trusts her.
Prov. 31:10,11
Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who
fears the Lord, she shall be praised. Proverbs 31:30

19. God’s Design for Wives & Mothers
6. Be managers of the household
…the older women likewise, that they be reverent in
behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of
good things that they admonish the young women to love
their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be
discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own
husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed. Titus
2:3- 5

20. God’s Design for Wives & Mothers
7. Primary responsibility: Raise Children
Home and children are to be the priority.
Titus 2:5
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
- Henry Ward Beecher

21. Ways to live out God's design as a wife/ mother
1. The core of your life
It is not serving your husband or your
children- it is to be in submission to the Lord.
Matthew 22:37

22. Ways to live out God's design as a wife/ mother
2. Your worth comes from the Lord
For the LORD will be your confidence and will
keep your foot from being caught.
Proverbs 3:26

23. Ways to live out God's design as a wife/ mother
2. Your worth comes from the Lord
Houses and riches are an inheritance from
fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Proverbs 19:14

24. Ways to live out God's design as a wife/ mother
3. Complement your husband
Two are better than one...woe to him who is
alone. Ecc. 4:9,10

25. Ways to live out God's design as a wife/ mother
4. Living in understanding
…but a prudent wife is from the Lord
Prov. 19:14

26. Ways to live out God's design as a wife/ mother
5. Subdue your desires to rule and control over
your husband
For the husband is head of the wife, as also
Christ is head of the church.
Ephesians 5:23

27. Ways to live out God's design as a wife/ mother
6. Building your home
The wise woman builds her house, but the
foolish one pulls it down with her hands.
Proverbs 14:1

28. Ways to live out God's design as a wife/ mother
6. Building your husband
Use encouraging wordsHead of respect
Heart of respect
Hands of respect

29. Ways to live out God's design as a wife/ mother
6. Building your children:
• Don’t make comparisons
• Never attack the child- address the behavior
• Speak well of them in their presence and
absence

30. Ways to live out God's design as a wife/ mother
7. Be quick to forgive and quick to repent
Be angry, and do not sin: do not let the sun go
down on your wrath, nor give place to the
devil. Eph 4: 26-27
God resists the proud but gives grace to the
humble James 4:6

31. Come to God
God will pour His generous grace into your
situation.
And God is able to make all grace abound toward
you, that you, always having all sufficiency in
all things, may have an abundance for every good
work. 2 Corinthians 9:8