'Women' in the Bible

Those who had eaten were about 5,000 adult men, without reckoning women and children.

Those who ate were 4,000 adult men, without reckoning women and children.

For in the Resurrection, men neither marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in Heaven.

And alas for the women who at that time are with child or have infants!

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

And there were a number of women there looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee ministering to His necessities;

But the angel said to the women, "As for you, dismiss your fears. I know that it is Jesus that you are looking for--the crucified One.

For when they have risen from among the dead, men do not marry and women are not given in marriage, but they are as angels are in Heaven.

And alas for the women who at that time are with child or have infants!

There were also a party of women looking on from a distance; among them being both Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of James the Little and of Joses, and Salome--

all of whom in the Galilaean days had habitually been with Him and cared for Him, as well as many other women who had come up to Jerusalem with Him.

and uttered a loud cry of joy. "Blest among women are you," she said, "and the offspring of your body is blest!

"I tell you that among all of women born there is not one greater than John. Yet one who is of lower rank in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.

and certain women whom He had delivered from evil spirits and various diseases--Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had come,

and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many other women, all of whom contributed to the support of Jesus and His Apostles.

but now that this son of yours is come who has eaten up your property among his bad women, you have killed the fat calf for him.'

There will be two women turning the mill together: one will be taken away and the other left behind."

"The men of this age," replied Jesus, "marry, and the women are given in marriage.

But as for those who shall have been deemed worthy to find a place in that other age and in the Resurrection from among the dead, the men do not marry and the women are not given in marriage.

"Alas for the women who at that time are with child or who have infants; for there will be great distress in the land, and anger towards this People.

A vast crowd of the people also followed Him, and of women who were beating their breasts and wailing for Him.

For a time is coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the women who never bore children, and the breasts which have never given nourishment.'

But all His acquaintances, and the women who had been His followers after leaving Galilee, continued standing at a distance and looking on.

The women--those who had come with Jesus from Galilee--followed close behind, and saw the tomb and how His body was placed.

The women were terrified; but, as they stood with their faces bowed to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you search among the dead for Him who is living?

The women were Mary of Magdala, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James; and they and the rest of the women related all this to the Apostles.

But the whole story seemed to them an idle tale; they could not believe the women.

And, besides, some of the women of our company have amazed us. They went to the tomb at daybreak,

Thereupon some of our party went to the tomb and found things just as the women had said; but Jesus Himself they did not see."

Now, in the Law, Moses has ordered us to stone such women to death. But what do you say?"

All of these with one mind continued earnest in prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and His brothers.

and even upon My bondservants, both men and women, at that time, I will pour out My Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

and more and more believers in the Lord joined them, including great numbers both of men and women--

But Saul cruelly harassed the Church. He went into house after house, and, dragging off both men and women, threw them into prison.

But when Philip began to tell the Good News about the Kingdom of God and about the Name of Jesus Christ, and they embraced the faith, they were baptized, men and women alike.

went to the High Priest and begged from him letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, in order that if he found any believers there, either men or women, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

So Peter rose and went with them. On his arrival they took him upstairs, and the widow women all came and stood by his side, weeping and showing him the underclothing and cloaks and garments of all kinds which Dorcas used to make while she was still with them.

On the Sabbath we went beyond the city gate to the riverside, where we had reason to believe that there was a place for prayer; and sitting down we talked with the women who had come together.

I persecuted to death this new faith, continually binding both men and women and throwing them into prison;

This then is the reason why God gave them up to vile passions. For not only did the women among them exchange the natural use of their bodies for one which is contrary to nature, but the men also,

in just the same way--neglecting that for which nature intends women--burned with passion towards one another, men practising shameful vice with men, and receiving in their own selves the reward which necessarily followed their misconduct.

To the Church of God in Corinth, men and women consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ-- their Lord as well as ours.

But I tell the unmarried, and women who are widows, that it is well for them to remain as I am.

Concerning unmarried women I have no command to give you from the Lord; but I offer you my opinion, which is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

Let married women be silent in the Churches, for they are not permitted to speak. They must be content with a subordinate place, as the Law also says;

All this is allegorical; for the women represent two Covenants. One has its origin on Mount Sinai, and bears children destined for slavery.

Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;

And just as the Church submits to Christ, so also married women should be entirely submissive to their husbands.

Yes, and I beg you also, my faithful yoke-fellow, to help these women who have shared my toil in connection with the Good News, together with Clement and the rest of my fellow labourers, whose names are recorded in the Book of Life.

And you men and women of Philippi also know that at the first preaching of the Good News, when I had left Macedonia, no other Church except yourselves held communication with me about giving and receiving;

Married women, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

and I would have the women dress becomingly, with modesty and self-control, not with plaited hair or gold or pearls or costly clothes,

but--as befits women making a claim to godliness--with the ornament of good works.

Deaconesses, in the same way, must be sober-minded women, not slanderers, but in every way temperate and trustworthy.

But worldly stories, fit only for credulous old women, have nothing to do with.

the elder women too as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, with perfect modesty.

I would therefore have the younger women marry, bear children, rule in domestic matters, and furnish the Adversary with no excuse for slander.

Among them are included the men who make their way into private houses and carry off weak women as their prisoners--women who, weighed down by the burden of their sins, are led by ever-changing caprice,

In the same way exhort aged women to let their conduct be such as becomes consecrated persons. They must not be slanderers nor enslaved to wine-drinking. They must be teachers of what is right.

They should school the young women to be affectionate to their husbands and to their children, to be sober-minded, pure in their lives,

Women received back their dear ones alive from the dead; and others were put to death with torture, refusing the deliverance offered to them--that they might secure a better resurrection.

The religious service which is pure and stainless in the sight of our God and Father is to visit fatherless children and widowed women in their time of trouble, and to keep one's own self unspotted from the world.

You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God.

Married women, in the same way, be submissive to your husbands, so that even if some of them disbelieve the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over by the daily life of their wives, after watching your daily life--

For in ancient times also this was the way the holy women who set their hopes upon God used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their husbands.

These are those who had not defiled themselves with women: they are as pure as virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men, as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.