20 Bible Verses about Women Working

to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.

She does him good and not evil
All the days of her life.
She looks for wool and flax
And works with her hands in delight.
She is like merchant ships;
She brings her food from afar.
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She rises also while it is still night
And gives food to her household
And portions to her maidens.
She considers a field and buys it;
From her earnings she plants a vineyard.

She senses that her gain is good;
Her lamp does not go out at night.

Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one will be left.

All the skilled women spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, in blue and purple and scarlet material and in fine linen.

The Israelites, all the men and women, whose heart moved them to bring material for all the work, which the Lord had commanded through Moses to be done, brought a freewill offering to the Lord.

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife can get to them.”

Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.

The Lord gives the command;
The women who proclaim the good tidings are a great host:

For seven women will take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach!”

But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.

Now hear the word of the Lord, O you women,
And let your ear receive the word of His mouth;
Teach your daughters wailing,
And everyone her neighbor a dirge.

“Please receive instruction from His mouth
And establish His words in your heart.

Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
And send for the wailing women, that they may come!

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking the Lord.”

She makes linen garments and sells them,
And supplies belts to the tradesmen.

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”

She looks well to the ways of her household,
And does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children rise up and bless her;
Her husband also, and he praises her, saying:

She is not afraid of the snow for her household,
For all her household are clothed with scarlet.