Bible Verses about “female pastors”
The Bible contains 50 verses about female pastors across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
“Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.”
“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
“For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:”
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.”
“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.”
“That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,”
“Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?”
“That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
“Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing.”
“A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;”
“But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman [is] the man; and the head of Christ [is] God.”
“For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.”
“[To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
“¶ Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;”
“This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”
“But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for [her] hair is given her for a covering.”
“But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”
“¶ Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.”
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,”
“For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.”
“But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with [her] head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.”
“Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered [them] to you.”
“For as the woman [is] of the man, even so [is] the man also by the woman; but all things of God.”
“The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;”
“For this cause ought the woman to have power on [her] head because of the angels.”
“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.”
“But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.”
“Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.”
“For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.”
“For a man indeed ought not to cover [his] head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.”
“And when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said, ‹Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.›”
“Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?”
“For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.”
“Every man praying or prophesying, having [his] head covered, dishonoureth his head.”
“After the same manner also [he took] the cup, when he had supped, saying, ‹This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink› [it], ‹in remembrance of me.›”
“But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of [that] bread, and drink of [that] cup.”
“Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.”
“Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink [this] cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.”
“(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)”
“For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.”
“One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;”
“For this cause many [are] weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.”
“¶ For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took bread:”
“Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;”
“¶ This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.”
“What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise [you] not.”
“And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.”
“For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.”