Bible Verses About Gender
Bible verses about Gender
Discover what the Bible says about gender.
Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.
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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.
Scripture Passages
For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
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.
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, 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.
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto 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.
There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the Lord, and that person be guilty;
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
For there is no respect of persons with God.
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.
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
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.
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Who shall offer it before the Lord, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
(As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
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.
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
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.