39 Bible Verses about Women's Roles

For as the woman by the man, so also the man by the woman; and all things of God.

But neither the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.

For also the man was not created through the woman; but the woman through the man.

And I trust not the woman to teach, neither to exercise authority over the man, but to be in freedom from care.

And I will you to know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman the man; and the head of Christ God.

And she shall be saved through the bringing forth children, if they remain in faith and love and consecration with discretion.

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

And if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for the hair has been given her for a cloak.

Therefore God delivered them to the suffering of ignominy: for also their females changed the natural use into that against generation:

That they render the young women discreet, to be lovers of the husband, lovers of the children,

For truly the man ought not to have the head covered, being the image and glory of God: and the woman is the glory of the man.

Therefore the woman ought to have power upon the head for the angels.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: and if shameful to the woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

And every woman praying or prophesying with head uncovered shames her head: for it is one and the same to her having been shaved.

Let not a widow be chosen less than sixty years, having been wife of one man,

Of sound mind chaste, remaining at home, good subordinates to their own husbands, that the word of God be not defamed.

Judge in yourselves: is it suitable for a woman to pray to God uncovered?

She will rise while yet night, and she will give food to her house, and a portion to her girls.

Let the husband return to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.

Let your women be silent in the churches: for it has not been committed to them to speak; but to be subjected, as also says the law.

The aged women likewise, becoming holy in a serene state of mind, not accusers, not slaves to much wine, teachers of good;

Let the woman, in freedom from care, learn in all subjection.

Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

The aged men to be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in the faith, in love, in patience.

She viewed the goings of her house, and the bread of sloth she will not eat

And I place with you Phebe our sister, being servant of the church in Cenchrea:

And in the coming of the turn of Esther the daughter of Abihail, uncle of Mordecai, which he took to him for a daughter, to go in to the king, she sought not a word except what Hegai the king's eunuch watching the women shall say. And Esther will be taking up favor in the eyes of all seeing her.

She tasted that her traffic is good: her light will not go out by night

If brethren shall dwell together and one of them died, and a son not to him, the wife of the dead shall not be without to a man a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and he took her to him for a wife, and he acted the husband's brother to her.

Concerning all things hold thyself a type of good works: in doctrine, integrity, gravity, incorruptibility,

And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God.

Does not nature itself teach you, that, if a man truly have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?

And if any one seem to be loving strife, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

And in the coming of the order of maiden and maiden to come in to the king Ahasuerus, from the end of there being to her, according to edict; of women twelve months (for so shall be completed the days of their purifications, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with spices, and with the purifications of the women;)

The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

And he will be nourishing Hadassah (this is Esther) his uncle's daughter: for not to her, father and mother, and the maiden beautiful of form and good of aspect; and in the death of her father and her mother; Mordecai took her to him for a daughter.

And a strong tower was in the midst of the city, and thither will flee all the men and women and all the lords of the city, and will shut up from after them, and they will go up upon the roof of the tower.