39 Bible Verses about Women's Roles

for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, and the all things are of God.

but neither is a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,

for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

for a man is not of a woman, but a woman is of a man,

and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her;

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,

for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,

because of this the woman ought to have a token of authority upon the head, because of the messengers;

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

'And he taketh a wife in her virginity;

for if a woman is not covered -- then let her be shorn, and if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven -- let her be covered;

and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, doth dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven,

A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

In your own selves judge ye; is it seemly for a woman uncovered to pray to God?

Yea, she riseth while yet night, And giveth food to her household, And a portion to her damsels.

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

She is watching the ways of her household, And bread of sloth she eateth not.

And I commend you to Phebe our sister -- being a ministrant of the assembly that is in Cenchrea --

And in the drawing nigh of the turn of Esther -- daughter of Abihail, uncle of Mordecai, whom he had taken to him for a daughter -- to come in unto the king, she hath not sought a thing except that which Hegai eunuch of the king, keeper of the women, saith, and Esther is receiving grace in the eyes of all seeing her.

She hath perceived when her merchandise is good, Her lamp is not extinguished in the night.

'When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;

concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

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

and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.

And in the drawing nigh of the turn of each young woman to come in unto the king Ahasuerus, at the end of there being to her -- according to the law of the women -- twelve months, for so they fulfil the days of their purifications; six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with spices, and with the purifications of women,

and an eye is not able to say to the hand, 'I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, 'I have no need of you.'

and he is supporting Hadassah -- she is Esther -- daughter of his uncle, for she hath neither father nor mother, and the young woman is of fair form, and of good appearance, and at the death of her father and her mother hath Mordecai taken her to him for a daughter.

and a strong tower hath been in the midst of the city, and thither flee do all the men and the women, and all the masters of the city, and they shut it behind them, and go up on the roof of the tower.