Thematic Bible: Women's Work
Thematic Bible
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Serving the church
Yes, I beg you also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Motherly duties
Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Acting as judges
Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Meeting an emergency and saving her household
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Philanthropy
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.
Women's Work » In the church » Manual labour
All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
She said, 'Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.' So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she stayed a little in the house."
Women's Work » As housekeepers
He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me."
Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.