39 Bible Verses about Women's Roles

For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman, but all things of God.

However, neither is woman without man, nor man without woman, in the Lord.

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

but I do not suffer a woman to teach nor to exercise authority over man, but to be in quietness;

But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head is the man, and the Christ's head God.

But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion.

For man is not of woman, but woman of man.

But woman, if she have long hair, it is glory to her; for the long hair is given to her in lieu of a veil.

For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature;

that they may admonish the young women to be attached to their husbands, to be attached to their children,

For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory.

Therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head, on account of the angels.

for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly. He is Saviour of the body.

And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it be shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved woman.

Let a widow be put upon the list, being of not less than sixty years, having been wife of one man,

discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered?

And she riseth while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and the day's work to her maidens.

Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.

Let your women be silent in the assemblies, for it is not permitted to them to speak; but to be in subjection, as the law also says.

that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;

Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection;

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

She surveyeth the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

But I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is minister of the assembly which is in Cenchrea;

And when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained grace in the sight of all them that saw her.

She perceiveth that her earning is good; her lamp goeth not out by night.

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not marry a stranger abroad: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

in all things affording thyself as a pattern of good works; in teaching uncorruptedness, gravity,

but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?

But if any one think to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God.

And when every maiden's turn came to go in to king Ahasuerus after that she had been treated for twelve months, according to the manner of the women (for so were the days of their purification accomplished six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with spices, and with things for the purifying of the women,

The eye cannot say to the hand, I have not need of thee; or again, the head to the feet, I have not need of you.

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother and the maiden was fair and beautiful and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the people of the city fled to it, all the men and women, and shut themselves in; and they went to the roof of the tower.