A. To be a companion:

PRO 31:11. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

MAL 2:14. Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

B. To love & please their husbands:

PRO 31:12. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

1COR 7:34. There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

TIT 2:4. That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

C. To be subject unto the husband:

1COR 11:3. 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.

1COR 11:8. For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.

1COR 11:9. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

EPH 5:33. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

COL 3:18. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

TIT 2:5. To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

1PE 3:1. Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

D. Submit out of love for Jesus:

EPH 5:22. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

1PE 3:1. Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

1PE 3:2. While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

1PE 3:3. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

1PE 3:4. But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

1PE 3:5. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: