20 Bible Verses about Women Working
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To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.
She does him good and not evil all the days of her life. She gets wool and linen, working at the business of her hands. She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.read more.
She gets up while it is still night, and gives meat to her family, and their food to her servant-girls. After looking at a field with care, she gets it for a price, planting a vine-garden with the profit of her work.
She sees that her marketing is of profit to her: her light does not go out by night.
And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen.
The children of Israel, every man and woman, from the impulse of their hearts, gave their offerings freely to the Lord for the work which the Lord had given Moses orders to have done.
And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are strong, and the birth takes place before we come to them.
Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time.
The Lord gives the word; great is the number of the women who make it public.
And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away.
In my opinion it is right for a woman not to be a teacher, or to have rule over a man, but to be quiet.
But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.
Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Take thought and send for the weeping women, so that they may come; and send for the wise women, so that they may come:
Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.
The start of the word of the Lord by Hosea: And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take for yourself a wife of loose ways, and children of the same, for the land has been untrue to the Lord.
She makes linen robes and gets a price for them, and traders take her cloth bands for a price.
And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it. Her children get up and give her honour, and her husband gives her praise, saying,
She has no fear of the snow for her family, for all those in her house are clothed in red.
