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.
“¶ 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;”
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”
“¶ And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”
“Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?”
“A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;”
“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.”
“But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for [her] hair is given her for a covering.”
“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.”
“¶ Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.”
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,”
“For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.”
“But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with [her] head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.”
“Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered [them] to you.”
“For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;”
“For as the woman [is] of the man, even so [is] the man also by the woman; but all things of God.”
“The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;”
“For this cause ought the woman to have power on [her] head because of the angels.”
“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.”
“But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.”
“Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.”
“For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.”
“Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.”
“For a man indeed ought not to cover [his] head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.”
“And when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said, ‹Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.›”
“Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?”
“For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.”
“Every man praying or prophesying, having [his] head covered, dishonoureth his head.”
“After the same manner also [he took] the cup, when he had supped, saying, ‹This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink› [it], ‹in remembrance of me.›”
“But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of [that] bread, and drink of [that] cup.”
“Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.”
“Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink [this] cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.”
“(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)”
“For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.”
“One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;”
“For this cause many [are] weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.”
“¶ For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took bread:”
“For Adam was first formed, then Eve.”
“¶ I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men;”
“And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”
“Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;”
“¶ This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.”
“What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise [you] not.”
“And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.”
“For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.”
“When ye come together therefore into one place, [this] is not to eat the Lord's supper.”
“For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.”
“But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.”
“For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.”