What Does the Bible Say About Young Women?

Titus 2:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes

To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Titus 2:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Genesis 25:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Luke 1:44 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

Proverbs 6:24-29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

To preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life. Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned? Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? ...

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

John 6:1-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” ...

Hosea 13:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Psalm 128:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord. The Lord bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life!

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

John 2:5-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom ...

Matthew 2:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.

Job 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

John 8:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me. In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Luke 1:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

Luke 1:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

Luke 1:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.

Joel 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

Daniel 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.

Proverbs 6:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing. There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Psalm 128:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord.

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Psalm 8:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

Job 10:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a man's years,

Job 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

39 Bible Verses about Young Women

Titus 2:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 2:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 25:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:44 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 6:24-29 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 6:1-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hosea 13:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 128:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 2:5-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 2:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joel 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 6:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 128:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 8:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 10:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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