Bible Verses about βfemale ministersβ
The Bible contains 25 verses about female ministers across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βSo God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.β
βThere is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.β
βΒΆ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.β
βBeware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.β
βBut I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.β
βGive her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.β
βLet the woman learn in silence with all subjection.β
βAnd it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:β
βAnd on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:β
βAnd Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.β
βΒΆ And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.β
βFor as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.β
βAnd there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;β
βFor ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.β
βAnd she [was] a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served [God] with fastings and prayers night and day.β
βΒΆ I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:β
βAnd she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.β
βAnd he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto [them], and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.β
βThat ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.β
βAnd she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.β
βAnd if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.β
βAnd I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and [with] other my fellowlabourers, whose names [are] in the book of life.β
βAnd certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,β
βΒΆ And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve [were] with him,β
βAnd Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.β
