'Women' in the Bible

Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.

And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.

Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.

For in the resurrection neither do men marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in heaven [who do not marry nor produce children].

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the [very] day when Noah entered the ark,

Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:

And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.

While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and told the high priests everything that had happened.

For when they rise from the dead, they do not marry nor are they given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

(Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.

And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,

Joanna, the wife of Herod's household manager Chuza; Susanna; and many others. These women continued to support them out of their personal resources.

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;

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!’

but when this [other] son of yours arrived, who has devoured your estate with immoral women, you slaughtered that fattened calf for him!’

Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

"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.

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

And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.

But Jesus turned to them and said, "Women of Jerusalem, stop crying for me. Instead, cry for yourselves and for your children,

because the time is surely coming when people will say, "How blessed are the women who couldn't bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'

And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.

And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.

Now on the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the aromatic spices they had prepared.

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

Then the women remembered Jesus' words.

It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.

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

Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;

And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.

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

Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

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

And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)

As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto 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.

But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.

And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.

And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.

but when it came that we completed the days, having gone forth, we went on, all bringing us on the way, with women and children, unto the outside of the city, and having bowed the knees upon the shore, we prayed,

And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

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.

Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,

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 your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

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

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.

And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are 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.

For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,

In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

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

Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

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

The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

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

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain 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.

In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands [subordinate, not as inferior, but out of respect for the responsibilities entrusted to husbands and their accountability to God, and so partnering with them] so that even if some do not obey the word [of God], they may be won over [to Christ] without discussion by the godly lives of their wives,

For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

And on her brow was a name, SECRET, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE EVIL WOMEN AND OF THE UNCLEAN THINGS OF THE EARTH.