'Women' in the Bible

“I assure you: Among those born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has appeared, but the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Now those who ate were about 5,000 men, besides women and children.

Now those who ate were 4,000 men, besides women and children.

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one left.

Many women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and ministered to Him were there, looking on from a distance.

But the angel told the women, “Don’t be afraid, because I know you are looking for Jesus who was crucified.

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

There were also women looking on from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.

When He was in Galilee, they would follow Him and help Him. Many other women had come up with Him to Jerusalem.

Then she exclaimed with a loud cry:“You are the most blessed of women,and your child will be blessed!

I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John, but the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and sicknesses: Mary, called Magdalene (seven demons had come out of her);

When she finds it, she calls her women friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found the silver coin I lost!’

Two women will be grinding grain together: One will be taken and the other left.

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

A large crowd of people followed Him, including women who were mourning and lamenting Him.

But all who knew Him, including the women who had followed Him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.

The women who had come with Him from Galilee followed along and observed the tomb and how His body was placed.

So the women were terrified and bowed down to the ground.“Why are you looking for the living among the dead?” asked the men.

Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them were telling the apostles these things.

But these words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women.

Moreover, some women from our group astounded us. They arrived early at the tomb,

Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they didn’t see Him.”

In the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do You say?”

All these were continually united in prayer, along with the women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and His brothers.

Believers were added to the Lord in increasing numbers—crowds of both men and women.

Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.

But when they believed Philip, as he preached the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.

and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women who belonged to the Way, he might bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

But the Jews incited the prominent women, who worshiped God, and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their district.

On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate by the river, where we thought there was a place of prayer. We sat down and spoke to the women gathered there.

Then some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, including a great number of God-fearing Greeks, as well as a number of the leading women.

Consequently, many of them believed, including a number of the prominent Greek women as well as men.

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women in jail,

the women should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but should be submissive, as the law also says.

These things are illustrations, for the women represent the two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery—this is Hagar.

Yes, I also ask you, true partner, to help these women who have contended for the gospel at my side, along with Clement and the rest of my coworkers whose names are in the book of life.

Also, the women are to dress themselves in modest clothing, with decency and good sense, not with elaborate hairstyles, gold, pearls, or expensive apparel,

but with good works, as is proper for women who affirm that they worship God.

older women as mothers, and with all propriety, the younger women as sisters.

Therefore, I want younger women to marry, have children, manage their households, and give the adversary no opportunity to accuse us.

For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions,

In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

so they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children,

Women received their dead—they were raised to life again. Some men were tortured, not accepting release, so that they might gain a better resurrection,

For in the past, the holy women who put their hope in God also beautified themselves in this way, submitting to their own husbands,

These are the ones not defiled with women, for they have kept their virginity. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They were redeemed from the human race as the firstfruits for God and the Lamb.