Bible Verses About Women

I haue deckt my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt.

I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.

Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.

For mine husband is not at home: he is gone a iourney farre off.

He hath taken with him a bagge of siluer, and will come home at the day appointed.

Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.

And he followed her straight wayes, as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter, and as a foole to the stockes for correction,

Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.

Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes of my mouth.

Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.

For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, and the strong men are all slaine by her.

Her house is the way vnto ye graue, which goeth downe to the chambers of death.

A gracious woman atteineth honour, and the strong men atteine riches.

As a iewell of golde in a swines snoute: so is a faire woman, which lacketh discretion.

A vertuous woman is the crowne of her husband: but she that maketh him ashamed, is as corruption in his bones.

A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish destroyeth it with her owne handes.

He that findeth a wife, findeth a good thing, and receiueth fauour of the Lord.

A foolish sonne is the calamitie of his father, and the contentions of a wife are like a continuall dropping.

House and riches are the inheritance of the fathers: but a prudent wife commeth of the Lord.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, then with a contentious woman in a wide house.

It is better to dwell in the wildernesse, then with a contentious and angry woman.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, then with a contentious woman in a wide house.

A continual dropping in the day of raine, and a contentious woman are alike.

He that hideth her, hideth the winde, and she is as ye oyle in his right hand, that vttereth it selfe.

For three things the earth is moued: yea, for foure it cannot susteine it selfe: