Bible Verses About Women

I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt.

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.

For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.

He took with him a bag of money: he will return home the day of the full moon.

She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.

Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds,

Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.

Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Let not thy mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths.

For she hath cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been slain by her.

Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.

A gracious woman shall find glory: and the strong shall have riches.

A golden ring in a swine's snout, a woman fair and foolish.

A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is as rottenness in his bones.

A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built.

He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked.

A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.

House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.

It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.

It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.

It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop: than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.

Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.

He that retaineth her, is as he that would hold the wind, and shall call the oil of his right hand.

By three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot bear.