48 Bible Verses about Godly Woman

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies is her price.

House and wealth are the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah is an understanding wife.

Whoso hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

Precious she is above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her.

(that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found.

The grace is false, and the beauty is vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.

She is watching the ways of her household, And bread of sloth she eateth not.

Yea, she riseth while yet night, And giveth food to her household, And a portion to her damsels.

for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

She hath considered a field, and taketh it, From the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.

but -- which becometh women professing godly piety -- through good works.

and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

but neither is a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones is one causing shame.

and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.

then answering, Jesus said to her, 'O woman, great is thy faith, let it be to thee as thou wilt;' and her daughter was healed from that hour.

She hath done him good, and not evil, All days of her life.

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,

Known in the gates is her husband, In his sitting with elders of the land.

Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness is on her tongue.

The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

Believe not in a friend, trust not in a leader, From her who is lying in thy bosom keep the openings of thy mouth.

To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.

And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is nets and snares, her hands are bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

'And he taketh a wife in her virginity;

for Adam was first formed, then Eve,

and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,

And the woman taketh the two men, and hideth them, and saith thus: 'The men came in unto me, and I have not known whence they are;

Strength and honour are her clothing, And she rejoiceth at a latter day.

Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, And her works do praise her in the gates!

and she hath said unto me, Both drink thou, and also for thy camels I draw -- she is the woman whom Jehovah hath decided for my lord's son.

and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good it is for a man not to touch a woman,

and she saith unto her husband, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have known that a holy man of God he is, passing over by us continually;

and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;

and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her;

And He did not make one only, And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

Daughters of kings are among thy precious ones, A queen hath stood at thy right hand, In pure gold of Ophir.

for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets hath cried unto Elisha, saying, 'Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou hast known that thy servant was fearing Jehovah, and the lender hath come to take my two children to him for servants.'

sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.