'Women' in the Bible

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said. However, they didn't see him."

Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women to death. What do you say?"

With one mind, all of them kept devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women (including Mary the mother of Jesus) and his brothers.

In those days I will even pour out my Spirit on my slaves, men and women alike, and they will prophesy.

Nevertheless, believers were being added to the Lord in increasing numbers both men and women.

But Saul kept trying to destroy the church. Going into one house after another, he began dragging off men and women and throwing them in prison.

But when Philip proclaimed the good news about the kingdom of God and about the name of Jesus the Messiah, men and women believed and were baptized.

He asked him for letters to take with him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

But the Jewish leaders stirred up devout women of high social standing and the officials in the city, started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their territory.

On the Sabbath day, we went out the city gate and walked along the river, where we thought there was a place of prayer. We sat down and began talking to the women who had gathered there.

Many of them believed, including a large number of prominent Greek women and men.

I persecuted this Way, even executing people, and kept tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

As in all the churches of the saints, the women must keep silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak out, but must place themselves in submission, as the oral law also says.

This is being said as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. The one woman, Hagar, is from Mount Sinai, and her children are born into slavery.

Yes, I also ask you, my true partner, to help these women. They have worked hard with me to advance the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

Women, for their part, should display their beauty by dressing modestly and decently in appropriate clothes, not with elaborate hairstyles or by wearing gold, pearls, or expensive clothes,

but through good actions. This is proper for women who claim to revere God.

Do not have anything to do with godless myths and fables of old women. Instead, train yourself to be godly.

older women like mothers, and younger women like sisters, with absolute purity.

For some of these men go into homes and deceive foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires.

These women are always studying but are never able to arrive at a full knowledge of the truth.

Likewise, older women are to show their reverence for God by their behavior. They are not to be gossips or addicted to alcohol, but to be examples of goodness.

They should encourage the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Women received their dead raised back to life. Other people were brutally tortured, but refused to be ransomed, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

After all, this is how holy women who set their hope on God used to make themselves beautiful in the past. They submitted themselves to their husbands,

They have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins, and they follow the lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from among humanity as the first fruits for God and the lamb.