32 Bible Verses about womanhood

Unto the woman He said, 'Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband is thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

But hear, ye women, a word of Jehovah, And your ear receiveth a word of His mouth, And teach ye your daughters wailing, and each her neighbour lamentation.

A myriad -- as the shoot of the field I have made thee, And thou art multiplied, and art great, And comest in with an excellent adornment, Breasts have been formed, and thy hair hath grown -- And thou, naked and bare!

for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;

and she saith unto her father, 'Let it not be displeasing in the eyes of my lord that I am not able to rise at thy presence, for the way of women is on me;' and he searcheth, and hath not found the teraphim.

Many are the daughters who have done worthily, Thou hast gone up above them all.'

as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him 'sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.

and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good it is for a man not to touch a woman,

and a certain woman, having an issue of blood twelve years,

'The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

'Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?

'And unto a woman in the separation of her uncleanness thou dost not draw near to uncover her nakedness.

If she is a wall, we build by her a palace of silver. And if she is a door, We fashion by her board-work of cedar.

Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive,

The woman then left her water-jug, and went away to the city, and saith to the men,

and the man saith, 'The woman whom Thou didst place with me -- she hath given to me of the tree -- and I do eat.'

Also Vashti the queen hath made a banquet for women, in the royal house that the king Ahasuerus hath.

Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,

(and also thine own soul shall a sword pass through) -- that the reasonings of many hearts may be revealed.'

And taken hold have seven women on one man, In that day, saying, 'Our own bread we do eat, And our own raiment we put on, Only, let thy name be called over us, Remove thou our reproach.'

but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

Another simile spake he to them: 'The reign of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.'

and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority is to injure men five months;

and if a house against itself be divided, that house cannot be made to stand;

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,

Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, Who are in the mountain of Samaria, Who are oppressing the poor, Who are bruising the needy, Who are saying to their lords: 'Bring in, and we do drink.'

A gracious woman retaineth honour, And terrible men retain riches.

And the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceiveth and beareth Cain, and saith, 'I have gotten a man by Jehovah;'

these all were continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

and it hath come to pass in that day that I have broken the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.'

Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;