Bible Verses About Women

but I do not permit a woman to teach a man or exercise authority over him; rather, she is to remain at peace.

For Adam was formed first, then Havah.

Also it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who, on being deceived, became involved in the transgression.

Nevertheless, the woman will be delivered through childbearing, provided that she continues trusting, loving and living a holy life with modesty.

Similarly, the wives must be of good character, not gossips, but temperate, faithful in everything.

Do not rebuke an older man sharply, but appeal to him as you would to a father; treat younger men like brothers,

older women like mothers and younger women like sisters, with absolute purity.

Show respect to widows who are really in need.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, first let them learn to do their religious duty to their own family and thus repay some of the debt they owe their forebears, for this is what is acceptable in the sight of God.

Now the widow who is really in need, the one who has been left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

But the one who is self-indulgent is already dead, even though she lives.

And instruct them about this, so that they will not be open to blame.

Moreover, anyone who does not provide for his own people, especially for his family, has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Let a widow be enrolled on the list of widows only if she is more than sixty years old, was faithful to her husband,

and is known for her good deeds — as one who has reared her children well, showed hospitality, washed the feet of God’s people, helped those in trouble, and engaged in all kinds of good work.

But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when they begin to feel natural passions that alienate them from the Messiah, they want to get married.

This brings them under condemnation for having set aside the trust they had at first.

Besides that, they learn to be idle, going around from house to house; and not only idle, but gossips and busybodies, saying things they shouldn’t.

Therefore, I would rather the young widows get married, have children and take charge of their homes, so as to give the opposition no occasion for slandering us.

For already some have turned astray to follow the Adversary.

If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, she should provide relief for them — the congregation shouldn’t be burdened, so that it may help the widows who are really in need.

For some of them worm their way into homes and get control of weak-willed women who are heaped with sins and swayed by various impulses,

who are always learning but never able to come to full knowledge of the truth.

Likewise, tell the older women to behave the way people leading a holy life should. They shouldn’t be slanderers or slaves to excessive drinking. They should teach what is good,

thus training the younger women to love their husbands and children,