22 Bible Verses about Godly Woman

For in ancient times also this was the way the holy women who set their hopes upon God used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their husbands.

but--as befits women making a claim to godliness--with the ornament of good works.

Yet a woman will be brought safely through childbirth if she and her husband continue to live in faith and love and growing holiness, with habitual self-restraint.

For man was not created for woman's sake, but woman for man's.

I would have you know, however, that of every man, Christ is the Head, that of a woman her husband is the Head, and that God is Christ's Head.

Yet, in the Lord, woman is not independent of man nor man independent of woman.

Married women, in the same way, be submissive to your husbands, so that even if some of them disbelieve the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over by the daily life of their wives, after watching your daily life--

and if they wish to ask questions, they should ask their own husbands at home. For it is disgraceful for a married woman to speak at a Church assembly.

"O woman," replied Jesus, "great is your faith: be it done to you as you desire." And from that moment her daughter was restored to health.

A woman should quietly learn from others with entire submissiveness.

There is a difference too between a married and an unmarried woman. She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business--that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman concerns herself with the business of the world--how she shall please her husband.

and I would have the women dress becomingly, with modesty and self-control, not with plaited hair or gold or pearls or costly clothes,

because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body.

For Adam was formed first, and then Eve;

But worldly stories, fit only for credulous old women, have nothing to do with.

but a married man concerns himself with the business of the world--how he shall please his wife.

I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.

And a woman who has an unbelieving husband--if he consents to live with her, let her not separate from him.

but that if a woman has long hair it is her glory, because her hair was given her for a covering?

For what assurance have you, O woman, as to whether you will save your husband? Or what assurance have you, O man, as to whether you will save your wife?

I do not permit a woman to teach, nor have authority over a man, but she must remain silent.

industrious in their homes, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the Christian teaching may not be exposed to reproach.