8 Bible Verses about Role Of Women In The Church

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1 Corinthians 11:3-12

And I will you to know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman the man; and the head of Christ God. Every man praying or prophesying, having on the head, shames his head. And every woman praying or prophesying with head uncovered shames her head: for it is one and the same to her having been shaved.read more.
For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: and if shameful to the woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. For truly the man ought not to have the head covered, being the image and glory of God: and the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. For also the man was not created through the woman; but the woman through the man. Therefore the woman ought to have power upon the head for the angels. But neither the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord. For as the woman by the man, so also the man by the woman; and all things of God.

Ephesians 5:22-23

Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

1 Timothy 2:9-15

And likewise the women in well-arranged simplicity, with modesty and discretion, arrange themselves; not in tresses, or gold, or pearls, or expensive clothing; But (what become women professing religious worship) with good works. Let the woman, in freedom from care, learn in all subjection.read more.
And I trust not the woman to teach, neither to exercise authority over the man, but to be in freedom from care. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, was in the transgression. And she shall be saved through the bringing forth children, if they remain in faith and love and consecration with discretion.

1 Timothy 5:9-14

Let not a widow be chosen less than sixty years, having been wife of one man, Testified of in good works; if she have brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of the holy, if she relieved the pressed, if she followed every good work. And the younger widows reject: for when they conduct themselves arrogantly against Christ, they wish to marry:read more.
Having judgment, for they put away the first faith. And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming. I wish therefore the younger to marry, to bear children, to rule the house, to give no occasion to him opposing for reproach.

Titus 2:3-5

The aged women likewise, becoming holy in a serene state of mind, not accusers, not slaves to much wine, teachers of good; That they render the young women discreet, to be lovers of the husband, lovers of the children, Of sound mind chaste, remaining at home, good subordinates to their own husbands, that the word of God be not defamed.

1 Peter 3:1-6

Likewise, wives being subject to their own husbands; that also, if any believe not the word, by the turning back of wives might be gained without the word; Having beheld in fear your pure turning back. Whose outside let it not be of the interweaving of hairs, and of putting round of gold, or of putting on of garments, the arrangement;read more.
But the hidden man of the heart, in the uncorruptedness of a mild and quiet spirit, which is before God of great price. For so once also the holy women, hoping in God, arranged themselves, being subjected to their own husbands: (As Sara listened to Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye are,) doing good, and not fearing any terror.

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