Bible Verses about “the purpose of the woman”
The Bible contains 49 verses about the purpose of the woman across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“There 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.”
“¶ And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”
“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.”
“Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?”
“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.”
“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.”
“She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue [is] the law of kindness.”
“¶ 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 he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.”
“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:”
“For Adam was first formed, then Eve.”
“And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”
“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.”
“When ye come together therefore into one place, [this] is not to eat the Lord's supper.”
“For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.”
“But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.”
“For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.”
“¶ Now in this that I declare [unto you] I praise [you] not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.”
“For in eating every one taketh before [other] his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.”
“Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.”
“¶ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.”
“And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
“And 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.”
“When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.”