39 Bible Verses about Women's Roles

For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.

But I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

But I would have you know 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 she will be delivered through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with good judgment.

For man is not from woman, but woman from 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 abandoned them to their degrading passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

For a man indeed ought not 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 cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the messengers.

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the savior of the body.

"'He shall take a wife in her virginity.

For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?

She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.

Let the husband fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

let the women keep silent in the churches, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the Law also says.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.

I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreae,

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn't go out by night.

If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

in all things showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness,

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's churches.

Each young woman's turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying women).

The eye cannot tell the hand, "I have no need for you," or again the head to the feet, "I have no need for you."

He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women fled, and all the lords of the city, and shut themselves in, and got them up to the roof of the tower.