30 Bible Verses about Women's Roles

for just as the woman was made from the man, so also is the man born of the woman, while they both come from God.

However, in the Lord neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman;

And man was not created for woman, but woman for man.

I allow no woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man; but let her keep quiet.

But I wish you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and of a wife her husband is head; and that God is head of Christ.

Notwithstanding she will be saved by the Child-bearing; (so will they all), if they live in faith and love and holiness, with self-restraint.

For it is not man who was made from woman, but woman was made from man.

but it is woman's glory, because her hair has been given her instead of a veil.

That is why God has given them up to passions of dishonor; for on the one hand their women actually changed the natural function of sex into that which is against nature;

They should train the younger women to love their husbands and children,

A man, indeed, ought not to have his head veiled, for he is an image and glory of God; but woman is a glory of man.

For this reason the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of her guardian angels.

because a husband is the head of his wife even as Christ is head of the church, his body, which he saves.

If a woman does not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair; now if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her be veiled.

but every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head (her husband). for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

A widow, to be placed upon the list, must be not less than sixty years old, and one who has been the wife of but one husband.

to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind and submissive to their husbands, in order that God's message be not maligned.

Judge of this for your own selves. It is fitting that a woman should pray to God with her head unveiled.

Let the husband give his wife her due, and likewise the wife her husband. The wife is not mistress of her own person,

"In your congregation" you write, "as in all the churches of the saints, let the women keep silence in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. On the contrary let them be subordinate, as also says the law.

that older women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers or slaves to much wine, but teachers of what is right.

Let a woman learn quietly in entire submission.

Wives likewise to their husbands as to the Lord,

that the older men be self-controlled, serious and sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a minister of the church at Cenchrae.

In your teaching be serious and sincere.

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn to show their piety first toward their own household, and to make some return to their parents, for that is pleasing in God's sight.

Nor does nature itself teach you that it is a disgrace to a man to have long hair,

If, however, any one is inclined to be disputatious regarding such a custom, let him know that neither I nor the churches of God hold to such a custom.

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