Bible Verses About Gender Roles

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

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

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

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

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.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

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

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;

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

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.

But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

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:

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

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.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

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.

Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.