32 Bible Verses about womanhood
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To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
Hear then the word of Jehovah, ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and each one her companion lamentation.
I caused thee to multiply, as the bud of the field; and thou didst increase and grow great, and thou camest to fulness of beauty; thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair grew: but thou wast naked and bare.
For also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.
And she said to her father, Let it not be an occasion of anger in the eyes of my lord that I cannot rise up before thee, for it is with me after the manner of women. And he searched carefully, but did not find the teraphim.
Many daughters have done worthily, but thou excellest them all.
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children ye have become, doing good, and not fearing with any kind of consternation.
But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion.
But concerning the things of which ye have written to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;
A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief because her hour has come; but when the child is born, she no longer remembers the trouble, on account of the joy that a man has been born into the world.
Or, what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully till she find it?
And thou shalt not approach a woman in the separation of her uncleanness to uncover her nakedness.
If she be a wall, We will build upon her a turret of silver; And if she be a door, We will enclose her with boards of cedar.
Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, that they might get a better resurrection;
The woman then left her waterpot and went away into the city, and says to the men,
And Man said, The woman, whom thou hast given to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.
Also the queen Vashti made a feast for the women of the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
(and even a sword shall go through thine own soul;) so that the thoughts may be revealed from many hearts.
And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, Our own bread will we eat, and with our own garments will we be clothed; only let us be called by thy name; take away our reproach!
but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until it had been all leavened.
and they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and their power was in their tails to hurt men five months.
And if a house has become divided against itself, that house cannot subsist.
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink:
And Man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have acquired a man with Jehovah.
These gave themselves all with one accord to continual prayer, with several women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jizreel.
Be vigilant; stand fast in the faith; quit yourselves like men; be strong.