39 Bible Verses about Women's Roles

For as the woman is from the man, so the man is through the woman; but all things are from God.

But the woman is not separate from the man, and the man is not separate from the woman in the Lord.

And the man was not made for the woman, but the woman for the man.

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 it is important for you to keep this fact in mind, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

But if they go on in faith and love and holy self-control, she will be kept safe at the time of childbirth.

For the man did not come from the woman, but the woman from the man.

But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given to her for a covering.

For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:

Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,

For it is not right for a man to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

For this reason it is right for the woman to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

And let him take as his wife one who has not had relations with a man.

For if a woman is not veiled, let her hair be cut off; but if it is a shame to a woman to have her hair cut off, let her be veiled.

But every woman who does so with her head unveiled, puts shame on her head: for it is the same as if her hair was cut off.

Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,

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.

Be judges yourselves of the question: does it seem right for a woman to take part in prayer unveiled?

She gets up while it is still night, and gives meat to her family, and their food to her servant-girls.

Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.

Let women keep quiet in the churches: for it is not right for them to be talking; but let them be under control, as it says in the law.

That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good,

Let a woman quietly take the place of a learner and be under authority.

Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.

That old men are to be simple in their tastes, serious, wise, true in faith, in love, and of a quiet mind.

She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

It is my desire to say a good word for Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchreae:

Now when the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And Esther was looked on kindly by all who saw her.

She sees that her marketing is of profit to her: her light does not go out by night.

If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.

In all things see that you are an example of good works; holy in your teaching, serious in behaviour,

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

Does it not seem natural to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him?

But if any man will not be ruled in this question, this is not our way of doing things, and it is not done in the churches of God.

Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus, after undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women (for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet perfumes and such things as are needed for making women clean):

And the eye may not say to the hand, I have no need of you: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

And he had been a father to Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his father's brother: for she had no father or mother, and she was very beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his daughter.

But in the middle of the town there was a strong tower, to which all the men and women of the town went in flight and, shutting themselves in, went up to the roof of the tower.