39 Bible Verses about Women's Roles

For as woman is from man, even so is man also from woman. But all things are from God!

However in the Lord, both men and women exist together. Not one without the other.

Neither was man created for woman but woman for man.

I do not permit a woman to teach or have dominion over a man, but to remain quiet.

I would have you know, that the head (authority) of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

She will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

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

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

For this cause God gave them up to vile affections for even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature.

They may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

For a man should not cover his head, for he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

That is why the woman should have a sign of authority on her head because of the angels.

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the congregation, he being the savior of the body.

The anointed priest should marry a virgin.

For if the woman were not covered, let her also be shaved. But if it is a shame for a woman to have her head shaved, let her be covered.

But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head. She is the same as if she had her head shaved.

Let a widow be put on the list if she is 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 the word of God will not be (defamed) dishonored.

Judge in yourselves. Is it proper that women pray to God uncovered?

She rises while it is still night and provides food for her household, and a portion to her maidens.

Let the husband fulfill his marital duties to his wife and also the wife to her husband.

Let women keep silent in the congregations. They are not permitted to speak. They must be in submission as it says in the law.

Aged women likewise should be reverent in behavior and teachers of that which is good. They should not be slanderers nor enslaved to too much wine.

Let a woman learn in silence with all subjection.

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

Aged men should be temperate, serious, sound in mind, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.

She watches over her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a minister of the congregation at Cenchrea.

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 all who saw her looked on Esther kindly.

She perceives that her merchandise is good. Her candle does not go out at night.

When brothers live together and one of them dies without a son the wife of the deceased shall not marry outside the family to a strange man. Her husband's brother shall marry her and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

Be an example of good works in all things, showing no corruption in your doctrine.

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

Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if men have long hair, it is a shame?

If anyone is contentious about this we have no other practice, neither do the congregations 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 cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

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

There was a strong tower there. The men and women in the city, including the leaders, ran to it. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof.