39 Bible Verses about Women's Roles

For just as the woman [is] from the man, thus also the man [is] through the woman. But all [things] [are] from God.

Nevertheless, neither [is] woman [anything] apart from man, nor [is] man [anything] apart from woman in the Lord.

For indeed man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.

But I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man, but {to remain quiet}.

But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man [is the] head of the woman, and [the] head of Christ [is] God.

But she will be saved through the bearing of children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

For man is not from woman, but woman from man.

But a woman, if she wears long hair, it is her glory, because her hair is given for a covering.

Because of this, God gave them over to degrading passions, for their females exchanged the natural relations for those contrary to nature,

in order that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands [and to] love their children,

For indeed a man ought not to cover his head, [because he] is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

Because of this, the woman ought to have [a symbol of] authority on her head, on account of the angels.

because [the] husband is [the] head of the wife, as also Christ [is the] head of the church (he himself [being the] Savior of the body).

" 'And he himself must take a wife in her virginity.

For if a woman does not cover herself, let her [hair] be shorn off. But if [it is] shameful for a woman to [have her head] shorn or shaved, let her cover her [head].

but every woman who prays or prophesies with uncovered head dishonors her head, for she is one and the same with the one whose [head] is shaved.

Let a widow be put on the list [if she] is not less than sixty years [old], the wife of one husband,

[to be] self-controlled, pure, busy at home, good, being subject to their own husbands, in order that the word of God may not be slandered.

You judge {for yourselves}: is it fitting for a woman to pray to God [with her head] uncovered?

And she arises while [it is] still night, and gives food to her household, and tasks to her servant girls.

The husband must fulfill his obligation to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

the women must be silent in the churches, for it is not permitted for them to speak, but they must be in submission, just as the law also says.

Older women likewise [are to be] reverent in [their] behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,

A woman must learn in quietness with all submission.

--wives to their own husbands as to the Lord,

Older men are to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, [and] in endurance.

She looks after the ways of her household, and the bread of idleness she will not eat.

Now I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is also a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

When the turn came near for Esther daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken [her] as a daughter, to go to the king, she did not ask anything except what Hegai the eunuch of the king who was in charge of the women, advised. And Esther carried favor in the eyes of everyone that saw her.

She perceives that her merchandise [is] good; her lamp does not go out in the night.

"When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not become the wife of a {man of another family}; her brother-in-law {shall have sex with her}, and he shall take her {to himself} as wife, and he shall perform his duty as brother-in-law [with respect to] her.

concerning everything showing yourself [to be] an example of good deeds, in your teaching [demonstrating] soundness, dignity,

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to show profound respect for their own household first, and to pay back recompense to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

And does not nature itself teach you that a man, if he wears long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

But if anyone is disposed to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

When the turn came for each girl to go to King Ahasuerus, after the end of twelve months of being under the regulations of the women--for the days of their beauty treatments had to be filled, six months with the oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and women's cosmetics--

Now the eye is not able to say to the hand, "I do not have need of you," or again, the head to the feet, "I do not have need of you."

He was raising Hadassah, that [is] Esther, his uncle's daughter, for she did not have a father or a mother; the young woman [had] a beautiful figure and [was] very attractive. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had taken her as his daughter.

But there was a strong tower in the middle of the city, and all the men, women, and lords of the city fled there and shut themselves in; and they went up to the roof of the tower.