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Bible Verses About Women in the Bible

This collection includes 50 passages about Women in the Bible. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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This collection is a starting point, not a count of every relevant passage in the Bible.

Scripture Passages

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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:

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And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

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

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(Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.

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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.

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Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goatsโ€™ hair.

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Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

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Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

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

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

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The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

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

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

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And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.

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And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

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The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

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And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

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Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

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It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.

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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.

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And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.

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She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

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And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

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

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And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:

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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.

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And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

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And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the Lord.

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And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

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Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?

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When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

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And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

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Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

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Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.

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