7 Bible Verses about Role Of Women In The Church

But I wish 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 with his head covered disgraces his head. But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered disgraces her head; for it is one and the same as if she was shaved.read more.
For if a woman is not veiled then let her hair be cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off, or to be shaved, let her wear a veil. For a man ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory of God; but the woman is a glory of man. For man is not of woman, but woman of man; for man also was not created because of the woman, but woman because of the man. For this reason ought the woman to have a power [veil] on her head because of the angels. But neither is woman without man, nor man without woman in the Lord; for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, but all things are from God.

Let wives [be subject] to their husbands as to the Lord, for the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; he is the savior of the body.

and in like manner also, that women in becoming apparel with modesty and sobriety adorn themselves, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly clothing, but with good works, which become women professing godliness. Let a woman learn quietly in all subjection;read more.
but I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have authority over a man, but to be quiet. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived; but the woman being deceived fell into transgression; but she shall be saved through child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and love, and holiness, with sobriety.

The women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, circumspect, faithful in all things.

Let not a widow be enrolled under sixty years of age, a wife of one husband, well reputed for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has exercised hospitality, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the distressed, if she has pursued every good work. But reject the younger widows; for when they fall into pleasure to the neglect of Christ, they wish to marry,read more.
being condemned because they have rejected the first faith; and at the same time also, being idle, they learn to go from house to house, and not only are they idle, they are also tattlers and mischief makers, saying what they ought not. I wish therefore the younger women to marry, bear children, keep house, give no occasion of reproach to the enemy;

that the aged women, in like manner, be of behavior becoming holiness, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good, that they may instruct the young women to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children, sober, pure, fond of home, kind, subject to their husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

In like manner let the women be subject to their husbands, that even if some disobey the word, they may be gained through the conduct of their wives without the word, seeing your pure mode of life in the fear [of God]. Whose ornament let it not be the external [ornament] of braided hair and the putting on of chains of gold or of clothing,read more.
but let the hidden man of the heart be adorned with the imperishable [ornaments] of a meek and quiet spirit, which are of great price before God. For so formerly also the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves, being subject to their husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose children you are, doing good and having no fear.