32 Bible Verses about womanhood

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

Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.

I have caused you to multiply as the bud of the field, and you have increased and become great, and you are come to excellent beauty: your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown, yet you were 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 you; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.

Many daughters have done virtuously, but you excel them all.

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

Yet she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with propriety.

Now concerning the things of which you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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

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

Or what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she loses one piece, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she finds it?

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

If she is a wall, we will build upon her towers of silver: and if she is a door, we will enclose 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 water pot, and went her way into the city, and said to the men,

And the man said, The woman whom you gave 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 cries aloud outside; she raises her voice in the open square:

(Yea, a sword shall pierce through your 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 your name, to take away our reproach.

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

Another parable spoke 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, you cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

A gracious woman retains honor: and strong men retain riches.

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore 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 brothers.

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

Watch, stand fast in the faith, be men, be strong.