Bible Verses About Women
This collection includes 50 passages about Women. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
This collection is a starting point, not a count of every relevant passage in the Bible.
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Scripture Passages
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.
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
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:
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
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.
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,
For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
(Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.
And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
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;
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
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.
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.
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
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.
And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goatsβ hair.
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
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.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saintsβ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
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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