32 Bible Verses about womanhood

To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase {your pain in childbearing}; in pain you shall bear children. And to your husband [shall be] your desire. And he shall rule over you."

For hear, women, the word of Yahweh, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters a lamentation, and each woman her neighbor a lament.

Grow up; I will make you like a plant of the field." And you grew up, and you became tall and {reached full womanhood}. [Your] breasts were formed, and your hair had grown, but you [were] naked and bare.

For indeed man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.

And she said to her father, "Let there not be anger in the eyes of my lord, for I am not able to rise before you, for the way of women [is] with me. And he searched carefully and did not find the idols.

"Many daughters have done excellence, but {you surpass} all of them."

like Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you have become [when you] do good and are not frightened with respect to any terror.

But she will be saved through the bearing of children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

Now concerning [the things] about which you wrote: "[It is] good for a man not to touch a woman."

And [there was] a woman who was {suffering from hemorrhages} twelve years.

A woman, when she gives birth, experiences pain because her hour has come. But when [her] child is born, she no longer remembers the affliction, on account of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Or what woman who has ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds [it]?

" 'And you must not {have sex with} a woman to expose her nakedness {during} her menstrual uncleanness.

If she [is] a wall, {we will adorn her with a turret of silver}; but if she [is] a door, we will barricade her with boards of cedar.

Women received back their dead by resurrection. But others were tortured, not accepting release, in order that they might gain a better resurrection.

So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and said to the people,

And the man replied, "The woman whom you gave [to be] with me--she gave to me from the tree and I ate."

Furthermore, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women [in] {the palace} that belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Wisdom calls out in the streets, in the squares she raises her voice.

and a sword will pierce your own soul also, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed!"

And seven women shall grasp at one man on that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and we will wear our own clothing; only {let us be called by your name}! Take away our disgrace!"

but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took [and] put into three measures of wheat flour until the whole [batch] was leavened."

And they have tails similar in appearance to scorpions, and stings, and their power to injure people [for] five months [is] in their tails.

And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

(for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

Hear this word, [you] cows of Bashan who [live] on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the powerless, who crush the poor, who say to their husbands, "Bring [something] so that we may drink!"

A woman of grace receives honor, but the ruthless gets wealth.

Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain. And she said, "I have given birth to a man with [the help of] Yahweh."

All these were busily engaged with one mind in prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.

{On that day} I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel."

Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act courageously, be strong.