Bible Verses About Role of Women

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

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.

For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

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;

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.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

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

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

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:

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

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

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 this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

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.

But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

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

And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:

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

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

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

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

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

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.

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.

She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.