Bible Verses about “women working”
The Bible contains 44 verses about women working across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
“Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.”
“¶ And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”
“[To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
“¶ Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price [is] far above rubies.”
“But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”
“And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.”
“She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue [is] the law of kindness.”
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,”
“Strength and honour [are] her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.”
“Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband [also], and he praiseth her.”
“She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.”
“She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.”
“Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.”
“The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.”
“Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.”
“The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;”
“She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.”
“She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.”
“She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.”
“She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.”
“She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing [is] silk and purple.”
“She perceiveth that her merchandise [is] good: her candle goeth not out by night.”
“She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.”
“She maketh fine linen, and selleth [it]; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.”
“She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.”
“She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.”
“She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household [are] clothed with scarlet.”
“Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.”
“Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.”
“Even so [must their] wives [be] grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.”
“Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.”
“Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.”
“¶ And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.”
“Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.”
“[It is] not for kings, O Lemuel, [it is] not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:”
“¶ Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.”
“Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.”
“I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.”
“Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.”
“¶ The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.”
“What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?”
“And he will take your daughters [to be] confectionaries, and [to be] cooks, and [to be] bakers.”
“And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, [both] of blue, and of purple, [and] of scarlet, and of fine linen.”