Bible Verses about “women pastors”
The Bible contains 21 verses about women pastors across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;”
“But I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.”
“Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.”
“(but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)”
“one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;”
“not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;”
“This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.”
“not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.”
“Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.”
“let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.”
“Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;”
“Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.”
“Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.”
“If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the assembly.”
“holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.”
“For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.”
“Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.”
“holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.”
“For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;”
“but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;”
“if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.”