30 Bible Verses about Women's Roles

For just as woman originates from man, so also man comes into existence through woman, but everything springs originally from God.

Yet, in the Lord, woman is not independent of man nor man independent of woman.

For man was not created for woman's sake, but woman for man's.

I do not permit a woman to teach, nor have authority over a man, but she must remain silent.

I would have you know, however, that of every man, Christ is the Head, that of a woman her husband is the Head, and that God is Christ's Head.

Yet a woman will be brought safely through childbirth if she and her husband continue to live in faith and love and growing holiness, with habitual self-restraint.

Man does not take his origin from woman, but woman takes hers from man.

but that if a woman has long hair it is her glory, because her hair was given her for a covering?

This then is the reason why God gave them up to vile passions. For not only did the women among them exchange the natural use of their bodies for one which is contrary to nature, but the men also,

They should school the young women to be affectionate to their husbands and to their children, to be sober-minded, pure in their lives,

For a man ought not to have a veil on his head, since he is the image and glory of God; while woman is the glory of man.

That is why a woman ought to have on her head a symbol of subjection, because of the angels.

because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body.

If a woman will not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair. But since it is a dishonor to a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her wear a veil.

but a woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her Head, for it is exactly the same as if she had her hair cut short.

No widow is to be put on the roll who is under sixty years of age.

industrious in their homes, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the Christian teaching may not be exposed to reproach.

Judge of this for your own selves: is it seemly for a woman to pray to God when she is unveiled?

Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.

Let married women be silent in the Churches, for they are not permitted to speak. They must be content with a subordinate place, as the Law also says;

In the same way exhort aged women to let their conduct be such as becomes consecrated persons. They must not be slanderers nor enslaved to wine-drinking. They must be teachers of what is right.

A woman should quietly learn from others with entire submissiveness.

Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;

Exhort aged men to be temperate, grave, sober-minded, robust in their faith, their love and their patience.

Herewith I introduce our sister Phoebe to you, who is a servant of the Church at Cenchreae,

and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone,

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn first to show piety towards their own homes and to prove their gratitude to their parents; for this is well pleasing in the sight of God.

Does not Nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a dishonor to him,

But if any one is inclined to be contentious on the point, we have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God.

It is also impossible for the eye to say to the hand, "I do not need you;" or again for the head to say to the feet, "I do not need you."