What Does the Bible Say About Treating Women?

1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. ...

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 4 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.

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 3 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, ...

Luke 17:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...

1 Timothy 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For Adam was formed first, then Eve;

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Galatians 3:26-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 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.

1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. ...

1 Corinthians 11:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Ephesians 5:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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.

1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; ...

Romans 16:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.

Romans 5:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.

John 8:32 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

Psalm 91:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.

Exodus 22:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“You shall not permit a sorceress to live.

Exodus 21:1-36 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone. But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ ...

34 Bible Verses about Treating Women

1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 17:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:26-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 5:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 16:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 5:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 8:32 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 91:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Exodus 22:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Exodus 21:1-36 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Treating Women

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1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 17:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:26-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 5:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 16:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 5:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 8:32 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 91:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Exodus 22:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Exodus 21:1-36 ESV / 1 helpful vote