32 Bible Verses about womanhood

To the woman he said, "I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."

Hear, O women, the word of the LORD, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge.

I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.

Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

And she said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the household gods.

"Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all."

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.

Yet she will be saved through childbearing--if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman."

And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years,

When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

"Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?

"You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.

If she is a wall, we will build on her a battlement of silver, but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.

So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people,

The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate."

Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women in the palace that belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice;

(and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed."

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

but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.

He told them another parable. "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened."

They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails.

And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),

"Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, 'Bring, that we may drink!'

A gracious woman gets honor, and violent men get riches.

Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD."

All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel."

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.