'Women' in the Bible

Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

There were about five thousand men who ate, besides women and children.

And those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

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

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

The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid; for I know that you are looking for Jesus who has been crucified.

There were also some women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses, and Salome.

When He was in Galilee, they used to follow Him and minister to Him; and there were many other women who came up with Him to Jerusalem.

And she cried out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

I say to you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and sicknesses: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,

While Jesus was saying these things, one of the women in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You and the breasts at which You nursed.”

But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and begins to beat the slaves, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk;

There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left.

And following Him was a large crowd of the people, and of women who were mourning and lamenting Him.

And all His acquaintances and the women who accompanied Him from Galilee were standing at a distance, seeing these things.

Now the women who had come with Him out of Galilee followed, and saw the tomb and how His body was laid.

and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead?

Now they were Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James; also the other women with them were telling these things to the apostles.

But also some women among us amazed us. When they were at the tomb early in the morning,

Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just exactly as the women also had said; but Him they did not see.”

Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women; what then do You say?”

These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

Even on My bondslaves, both men and women,I will in those days pour forth of My SpiritAnd they shall prophesy.

And all the more believers in the Lord, multitudes of men and women, were constantly added to their number,

But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and dragging off men and women, he would put them in prison.

But when they believed Philip preaching the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being baptized, men and women alike.

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

But the Jews incited the devout women of prominence and the leading men of the city, and instigated a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.

And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we were supposing that there would be a place of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had assembled.

And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of the God-fearing Greeks and a number of the leading women.

Therefore many of them believed, along with a number of prominent Greek women and men.

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons,

For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,

The women are to keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says.

This is allegorically speaking, for these women are two covenants: one proceeding from Mount Sinai bearing children who are to be slaves; she is Hagar.

Indeed, true companion, I ask you also to help these women who have shared my struggle in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments,

but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.

But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.

Women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things.

But have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women. On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness;

the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity.

For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,

Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,

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

Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection;

For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands;

They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.

These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they have kept themselves chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb.