17 Bible Verses about womanhood

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

Thus, for instance, Sarah obeyed Abraham, acknowledging his authority over her. And you have become Sarah's children if you do what is right and permit nothing whatever to terrify you.

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.

I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.

Now a woman who for twelve years had suffered from haemorrhage,

A woman, when she is in labour, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has given birth to the babe, she no longer remembers the pain, because of her joy at a child being born into the world.

"Or what woman who has ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully till she finds it?

Women received back their dear ones alive from the dead; and others were put to death with torture, refusing the deliverance offered to them--that they might secure a better resurrection.

The woman however, leaving her pitcher, went away to the town, and called the people.

and a sword will pierce through your own soul also; that the reasonings in many hearts may be revealed."

Yet let us send them written instructions to abstain from things polluted by connexion with idolatry, from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.

Another parable He spoke to them. "The Kingdom of the Heavens," He said, "is like yeast which a woman takes and buries in a bushel of flour, for it to work there till the whole mass has risen."

They had tails like those of scorpions, and also stings; and in their tails lay their power of injuring mankind for five months.

and if a family splits into parties, that family cannot continue.

Live and act as sons of Light--for the effect of the Light is seen in every kind of goodness, uprightness and truth--

All of these with one mind continued earnest in prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and His brothers.

Be on the alert; stand firm in the faith; acquit yourselves like men; be strong.