Thematic Bible: Women's Work
Thematic Bible
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Serving the church
Indeed, true companion, I ask you also to help these women who have shared my struggle in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea;
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Motherly duties
And his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him from year to year when she would come up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and then died.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Acting as judges
Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
Until I, Deborah, arose,
Until I arose, a mother in Israel.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Meeting an emergency and saving her household
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
All the skilled women spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, in blue and purple and scarlet material and in fine linen.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Philanthropy
Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which translated in Greek is called Dorcas); this woman was abounding with deeds of kindness and charity which she continually did.
Women's Work » In the church » Manual labour
All the skilled women spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, in blue and purple and scarlet material and in fine linen.
He will also take your daughters for perfumers and cooks and bakers.
And she said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ Thus she came and has remained from the morning until now; she has been sitting in the house for a little while.”
Women's Work » As housekeepers
He will also take your daughters for perfumers and cooks and bakers.
But Martha was distracted with all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? Then tell her to help me.”
Go now to the flock and bring me two choice young goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such as he loves.
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