32 Bible Verses about womanhood
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And unto the woman he said, "I will surely increase thy sorrow and make thee oft with child, and with pain shalt thou be delivered: And thy lusts shall pertain unto thy husband and he shall rule thee."
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ears regard the words of his mouth: that ye may learn your daughters to mourn, and that every one may teach her neighbouress to make lamentation.
So I planted thee, as the blossom of the field. Thou art grown up, and waxen great: thou hast gotten a marvelous pleasant beauty, thy breasts are come up, thy hair is goodly grown; whereas thou wast naked and bare afore.
Neither was the man created for the woman's sake: but the woman for the man's sake.
Then said she to her father, "My lord, be not angry that I cannot rise up before thee, for the disease of women is come upon me." So searched he, but found them not.
Many daughters there be that gather riches together, but thou goest above them all.
even as Sara obeyed Abraham and called him "Lord" - whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well, not being afraid of every shadow.
Notwithstanding, through bearing of children they shall be saved, so they continue in faith, love, and holiness with discretion.
As concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man, not to touch a woman.
And there was a certain woman, which was diseased of an issue of blood twelve years,
A woman when she travaileth hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Either, what woman having ten groats, if she lose one, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently, till she find it?
Thou shalt not go unto a woman to uncover her privity as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
If she be a wall, we shall build a silver bulwark thereupon: if she be an open door, we shall fasten her with boards of Cedar tree.
And the women received their dead raised to life again. Others were racked, and would not be delivered, that they might receive a better resurrection.
The woman then left her water pot behind her, and went her way into the city, and said to the men there,
And Adam answered, "The woman which thou gavest to bear me company, she took me of the tree, and I ate."
And the queen Vashti made a feast also for the women in the palace of Ahasuerus.
And moreover, the sword shall pierce thy soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be opened."
Then shall seven wives take hold of one man, and say, "We will lay all our meat and clothing together in common, only that we may be called thy wives, and that this shameful reproof may be taken from us."
but that we write unto them, that they abstain themselves from filthiness of images, from fornication, from strangled, and from blood.
Another similitude said he to them, "The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven which a woman taketh and hideth in three pecks of meal, till all be leavened."
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. And their power was to hurt men five months.
For the fruit of the spirit is, in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.
O hear this word, ye fat cows, that be upon the hill of Samaria; yea, that do poor men wrong, and oppress the needy; yea, that say to your lords, 'Bring hither, let us drink.'
A gracious woman maintaineth honesty; as for the mighty, they maintain riches.
And Adam lay with Eve his wife, which conceived and bare Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man of the LORD."
These all continued with one accord, in prayer, and supplication with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, and be strong.