Bible Verses about “the role of the older woman”
The Bible contains 43 verses about the role of the older woman across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;”
“Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.”
“¶ And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”
“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.”
“[To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
“¶ Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;”
“¶ Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price [is] far above rubies.”
“But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.”
“But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”
“She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue [is] the law of kindness.”
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,”
“Strength and honour [are] her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.”
“Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband [also], and he praiseth her.”
“She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.”
“She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.”
“Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.”
“The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.”
“Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.”
“The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;”
“She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.”
“She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.”
“While they behold your chaste conversation [coupled] with fear.”
“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.”
“She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.”
“She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.”
“Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.”
“She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing [is] silk and purple.”
“She perceiveth that her merchandise [is] good: her candle goeth not out by night.”
“She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.”
“She maketh fine linen, and selleth [it]; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.”
“She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.”
“She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.”
“She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household [are] clothed with scarlet.”
“Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.”
“For Adam was first formed, then Eve.”
“And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”
“Even so [must their] wives [be] grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.”
“¶ [It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.”
“The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.”
“¶ Rebuke not an elder, but intreat [him] as a father; [and] the younger men as brethren;”
“¶ Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.”
“And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto [them], and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.”
“When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.”