20 Bible Verses about Women Working

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Titus 2:5

to be sensible, pure, makers of a home [where God is honored], good-natured, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.

Proverbs 31:12-16


She comforts, encourages, and does him only good and not evil
All the days of her life.

She looks for wool and flax
And works with willing hands in delight.

She is like the merchant ships [abounding with treasure];
She brings her [household’s] food from far away.
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She rises also while it is still night
And gives food to her household
And assigns tasks to her maids.

She considers a field before she buys or accepts it [expanding her business prudently];
With her profits she plants fruitful vines in her vineyard.

Proverbs 31:18


She sees that her gain is good;
Her lamp does not go out, but it burns continually through the night [she is prepared for whatever lies ahead].

Matthew 24:41

Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken [for judgment] and one will be left.

Exodus 35:25

All the skilled and talented women spun thread with their hands, and brought what they had spun, blue and purple and scarlet fabric and fine linen.

Exodus 35:29

The Israelites, all the men and women whose heart moved them to bring material for all the work which the Lord had commanded through Moses to be done, brought a freewill (voluntary) offering to the Lord.

Exodus 1:19

The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth quickly and their babies are born before the midwife can get to them.”

Judges 4:4

Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.

Psalm 68:11


The Lord gives the command [to take Canaan];
The women who proclaim the good news are a great host (army);

Isaiah 4:1

And in that day seven women will take hold of one man, saying, “We will eat our own food and wear [and provide] our own clothes; only let us be called by your name; take away our shame [of being unmarried].”

Jeremiah 9:20


Now hear the word of the Lord, O you women,
And let your ear hear the word of His mouth;
Teach your daughters a song of mourning,
And each one [teach] her neighbor a dirge.

Job 22:22


“Please receive the law and instruction from His mouth
And establish His words in your heart and keep them.

Jeremiah 9:17

Thus says the Lord of hosts,

“Consider and call for the mourning women to come;
Send for the wailing women to come.

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and have children of [her] prostitution; for the land commits great acts of prostitution by not following the Lord.”

Proverbs 31:24


She makes [fine] linen garments and sells them;
And supplies sashes to the merchants.

Proverbs 31:27-28


She looks well to how things go in her household,
And does not eat the bread of idleness.

Her children rise up and call her blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired);
Her husband also, and he praises her, saying,

Proverbs 31:21


She does not fear the snow for her household,
For all in her household are clothed in [expensive] scarlet [wool].

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