32 Bible Verses about womanhood

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.

Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.

Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?

Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,

And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.