39 Bible Verses about Women's Roles

For as the woman is of the man, even so the man is also through the woman; but all things of God.

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

Nor was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

But I do not allow a woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

But she will be kept safe through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with sensibleness.

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

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

For this cause, God gave them up to dishonorable affections. For even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

For this reason the woman ought to have authority on her head because of the angels.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.

And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

For if the woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn. But if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.

But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head; for that is even the same as if she were shaved.

Do not let a widow be enrolled having become less than sixty years old, the wife of one man,

to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, subject to their own husbands, that the Word of God may not be blasphemed.

Judge among yourselves: is it right that a woman pray to God unveiled?

She also rises while it is still night, and gives food to her household, and a share to her young women.

Let the husband give to the wife proper kindness, and likewise the wife also to the husband.

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

Let the aged women likewise be in reverent behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of good;

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

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

aged men to be temperate, sensible, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience.

She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

And when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai who had taken her for his daughter, had come to go in to the king, she asked nothing but what was chosen by Hegai the king's officer, the keeper of the women. And Esther had favor in the sight of all who looked on her.

She sees that her merchandise is good; her lamp does not go out by night.

If brothers live together, and one of them dies and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as a wife for himself, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

In all things having shown yourself a pattern of good works: in the doctrine, purity, sensibleness, without corruption,

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.

Does not even nature itself teach you that if man has long hair, it is a shame to him?

But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the churches of God.

And when the turn of each young woman had come to go in to King Ahasuerus, after she had been purified twelve months, according to the law of the women (for so the days of their anointing were done, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors, and with the perfumes of the women).

And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

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

But there was a strong tower in the middle of the city, and all the men and women, and all the leaders of the city, fled there, and shut it behind them, and got up to the top of the tower.