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Bible Verses about “women in ministry”

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

1 Timothy 2:9
851 votes

“In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;”

Galatians 3:28
815 votes

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”

Genesis 2:18
470 votes

“Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."”

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?”

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.”

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 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 2:10
359 votes

“but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.”

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 Timothy 2:5
280 votes

“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,”

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 Timothy 2:15
260 votes

“but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.”

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 2:13
234 votes

“For Adam was first formed, then Eve.”

1 Timothy 2:1
230 votes

“I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:”

1 Timothy 2:14
230 votes

“Adam wasn't deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;”

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.”

1 Corinthians 11:20
213 votes

“When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.”

1 Corinthians 11:19
212 votes

“For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.”

1 Corinthians 11:32
212 votes

“But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.”

1 Corinthians 11:18
211 votes

“For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.”

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