Bible Verses about “the role of the woman”

“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.”

“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”

“¶ And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for 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.”

“[To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”

“But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”

“Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them.”

“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,”

“The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;”

“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.”

“Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.”

“For Adam was first formed, then Eve.”

“And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”

“¶ 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.”

“Even so [must their] wives [be] grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.”

“¶ Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.”