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The Role of a Preacher's Wife
What does the Bible say a preacher's wife should be
The Bible does not speak much about the role of a preacher's wife or her characteristics so let us take a look at what the Bible says about women in general.
- Just as the Pastor is to set a godly example in the community so is the Pastor's wife to set a proper, godly example especially to other ladies.
- She must not place her position above her husband's position as head of the household and head of the church body.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Ephesians 5:22-23
- She must be able to pray with people.
- She is to be a mentor to young ladies, and a teacher to all the ladies in the church.
The aged women likewise, ...teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, [To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Titus 2:3-5
(verse 3) The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
(verse 4) That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
(verse 5) [To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.Titus 2 verses 3-5
"Mentor" according to dictionary.com means a wise and trusted counselor or teacher. The preacher's wife should be trustworthy, not a gossiper. They should be ready to counsel and guide young people with biblical knowledge and understanding that will build their faith and trust in the Lord.
Wives are responsible for keeping a clean, well kept home and fulfilling all necessary duties to her husband and children as this is one way she serves the Lord.
"Chaste" according to the dictionary means
-not engaging in sexual relations, celibate, free from obscenity; decent, undefiled or stainless, pure in style; not excessively ornamented; simple. -dictionary.com-
- She must not be a slanderer or consume alcoholic beverages.
Even so [must their] wives [be] grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. 1 Timothy 3:11
The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine. Titus 2:3-5(verse 3) The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
(verse 4) That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
(verse 5) [To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.Titus 2 verses 3-5
A preacher's wife must NOT BE a FALSE ACCUSER or FALSE WITNESS, or GOSSIPER, or SLANDERER, or consume alcoholic beverages. She is to be a 'TEACHER' to young ladies in how to be proper ladies, godly ladies faithful to the Lord, and for married ladies to be faithful to their husbands as well as to the Lord.
Again, she must be "chaste," referring to "free from obscenity; decent, undefiled or stainless, pure in style."
- She must be 'MODEST.'
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. 1 Timothy 2:9-10
A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones. Proverbs 12:4
Again, she must be "chaste," referring to "decent, pure in style; not excessively ornamented; simple."
More Scriptures in the Bible about women
Proverbs 11:16,
Proverbs 14:1,
Proverbs 19:13,
Proverbs 21:19,
Luke 8:2-3,
Romans 16:12,
1 Corinthians 7:34,
1 Corinthians 11:8-9, 11-12,
Galatians 3:28,
Colossians 3:18