30 Bible Verses about Women's Roles
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For just as woman originated from man, so man is born of woman, and both, with everything else, originated from God.
But from the Lord's point of view woman is not independent of man nor man of woman.
I do not permit a married woman to practice teaching or domineering over a husband; she must keep quiet.
But I want you to realize the fact that Christ is the Head of every man, that the husband is the head of the wife, and that God is the Head of Christ.
But women will be saved through motherhood, if they continue to live in faith, love, and purity, blended with good sense.
but that it is a woman's glory to do so? For her hair is given her for a covering.
This is why God has given them up to degrading passions. For their females have exchanged their natural function for one that is unnatural,
For a man ought not to wear anything on his head, because he is the image and reflected glory of God, but woman is man's reflected glory.
This is why woman ought to wear upon her head a symbol of man's authority, especially out of respect to the angels.
for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the Head of the church, His body, and Saviour of it.
For if a woman will not wear a veil, let her have her hair cut off too. Now if it is a dishonor for a woman to have her hair cut off, or her head shaved, let her wear a veil.
and any woman who prays or prophesies bareheaded dishonors her head, for it is one and the same thing with having her head shaved.
No widow under sixty years of age should be put on this roll. A widow must have had but one husband,
to be serious, pure, home keepers, kind, and subordinate to their husbands, so as not to cause God's message to suffer reproach.
You must judge for yourselves in this matter. Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with nothing on her head?
The husband must always give his wife what is due her, and the wife too must do so for her husband.
Women must keep quiet in the churches, for no permission is given them to speak. On the contrary, they must take a subordinate place, just as the law says.
the older women, too, to be reverent in their deportment, and not to be slanderers or slaves to heavy drinking, but to be teachers of what is right,
You married women must continue to live in subordination to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,
the older men to be temperate, serious, and sensible, healthy in faith, in love, and in steadfastness;
Now I introduce to you our sister Phoebe, who is a deaconess in the church at Cenchreae,
In everything you yourself continue to set them a worthy example of doing good; be sincere and serious in your teaching,
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice piety in the treatment of their own families, and to pay the debt they owe their parents or grandparents, for this is acceptable to God.
Does not nature itself teach you that it is degrading for a man to wear long hair,
But if anyone is inclined to be contentious about it, I for my part prescribe no other practice than this, and neither do the churches of God.
The eye cannot say to the hand, "I do not need you," or the hand to the feet, "I do not need you."
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