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Bible Verses about “female pastors”

The Bible contains 50 verses about female pastors across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Ephesians 5:25
790 votes

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;”

Ephesians 5:33
646 votes

“Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”

Ephesians 5:28
547 votes

“Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”

Ephesians 5:22
527 votes

“Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”

Ephesians 5:29
511 votes

“For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;”

Ephesians 5:31
469 votes

“"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."”

Ephesians 5:23
454 votes

“For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.”

Ephesians 5:26
450 votes

“that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,”

1 Corinthians 11:14
447 votes

“Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?”

Ephesians 5:27
447 votes

“that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”

Ephesians 5:24
426 votes

“But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.”

1 Timothy 3:2
414 votes

“The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;”

1 Corinthians 11:3
380 votes

“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.”

Ephesians 5:30
380 votes

“because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.”

Titus 2:5
377 votes

“to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.”

1 Peter 3:1
376 votes

“In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;”

Ephesians 5:32
374 votes

“This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.”

1 Corinthians 11:15
363 votes

“But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.”

1 Timothy 2:12
356 votes

“But I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.”

1 Corinthians 11:1
321 votes

“Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.”

Titus 2:4
316 votes

“that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,”

1 Corinthians 11:6
315 votes

“For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.”

1 Corinthians 11:5
305 votes

“But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.”

1 Corinthians 11:2
304 votes

“Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.”

1 Corinthians 11:12
276 votes

“For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.”

Titus 2:3
275 votes

“and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;”

1 Corinthians 11:10
272 votes

“For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.”

1 Timothy 2:11
270 votes

“Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.”

1 Corinthians 11:16
269 votes

“But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.”

1 Corinthians 11:9
263 votes

“for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.”

1 Corinthians 11:8
260 votes

“For man is not from woman, but woman from man;”

1 Corinthians 11:7
259 votes

“For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.”

1 Corinthians 11:24
259 votes

“When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me."”

1 Corinthians 11:13
258 votes

“Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?”

1 Corinthians 11:26
258 votes

“For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.”

1 Corinthians 11:4
257 votes

“Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.”

1 Corinthians 11:25
257 votes

“In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me."”

1 Corinthians 11:28
253 votes

“But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.”

1 Corinthians 11:11
252 votes

“Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 11:27
249 votes

“Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.”

1 Timothy 3:5
248 votes

“(but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)”

1 Corinthians 11:29
242 votes

“For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.”

1 Timothy 3:4
241 votes

“one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;”

1 Corinthians 11:30
237 votes

“For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.”

1 Corinthians 11:23
236 votes

“For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.”

1 Timothy 3:3
230 votes

“not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;”

1 Timothy 3:1
229 votes

“This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.”

1 Corinthians 11:22
219 votes

“What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.”

1 Corinthians 11:34
218 votes

“But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.”

1 Corinthians 11:31
214 votes

“For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.”

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