Bible Verses About Womenservants

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

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

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:

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

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

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.

(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 also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

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

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

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:

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

And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

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

But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house 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;

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

That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.

But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

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?

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

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.

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

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

And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

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.

And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.

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

For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.

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

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

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

And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.

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