Bible Verses About Women

And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, did hear: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to those things which were said by Paul.

And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying: If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide there. And she constrained us.

And some of them believed and were associated to Paul and Silas: and of those that served God and of the Gentiles a great multitude: and of noble women not a few.

And many indeed of them believed: and of honourable women that were Gentiles and of men, not a few.

But certain men, adhering to him, did believe: among whom was also Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.

For this cause, God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ: and the head of the woman is the man: and the head of Christ is God.

Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered disgraceth his head.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven.

For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn. But if it be a shame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let her cover her head.

The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.

For the man was not created for the woman: but the woman for the man.

Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her head, because of the angels.

But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.

For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things of God.

You yourselves judge. Doth it become a woman to pray unto God uncovered?

Doth not even nature itself teach you that a man indeed, if he nourish his hair, it is a shame unto him?

But if a woman nourish her hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering.

Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak but to be subject, as also the law saith.

But if they would learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.

But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire:

But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.