Bible Verses about “women in church”

“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

“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.”

“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.”

“[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.”

“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.”

“And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

“For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.”

“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.”

“¶ Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be under obedience, as also saith the law.”

“¶ 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.”

“And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”

“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 they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.”

“And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.”

“And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof.”

“And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.”

“And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”

“¶ And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;”

“And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.”

“And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”

“And the gold of that land [is] good: there [is] bdellium and the onyx stone.”

“¶ And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.”

“And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.”

“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

“And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that [is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river [is] Euphrates.”

“And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.”

“The name of the first [is] Pison: that [is] it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where [there is] gold;”

“¶ And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:”

“¶ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.”

“¶ These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,”

“And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.”

“But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.”