48 Bible Verses about Godly Woman

An excellent wife, who can find?
For her worth is far above jewels.

House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers,
But a prudent wife is from the Lord.

He who finds a wife finds a good thing
And obtains favor from the Lord.

She is more precious than jewels;
And nothing you desire compares with her.

which I am still seeking but have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all these.

Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain,
But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.

She looks well to the ways of her household,
And does not eat the bread of idleness.

She rises also while it is still night
And gives food to her household
And portions to her maidens.

For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands;

She considers a field and buys it;
From her earnings she plants a vineyard.

but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.

But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.

for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake.

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

However, in the Lord, neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband,
But she who shames him is like rottenness in his bones.

If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is improper for a woman to speak in church.

Then Jesus said to her, “O woman, your faith is great; it shall be done for you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed at once.

She does him good and not evil
All the days of her life.

A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness.

Her husband is known in the gates,
When he sits among the elders of the land.

She opens her mouth in wisdom,
And the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

and his interests are divided. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Do not trust in a neighbor;
Do not have confidence in a friend.
From her who lies in your bosom
Guard your lips.

To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the adulteress who flatters with her words;

Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments,

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.

The wise woman builds her house,
But the foolish tears it down with her own hands.

And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

He shall take a wife in her virginity.

For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve.

But have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women. On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness;

But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them, and she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.

Strength and dignity are her clothing,
And she smiles at the future.

Give her the product of her hands,
And let her works praise her in the gates.

and she will say to me, “You drink, and I will draw for your camels also”; let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master’s son.’

but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

She said to her husband, “Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God passing by us continually.

And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not send her husband away.

but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.

Kings’ daughters are among Your noble ladies;
At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.

For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.