What Does the Bible Say About Women In Power?

1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 12 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 2:11-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

Isaiah 3:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

My people—infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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.

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

1 Timothy 2:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.

Romans 16:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,

Acts 2:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

1 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

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, ...

John 4:1-54 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ...

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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 14:34 ESV / 2 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.

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ESV / 2 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. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

1 Corinthians 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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.

Acts 18:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Numbers 30:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the people of Israel, saying, “This is what the Lord has commanded. If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. “If a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father's house in her youth, and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has bound herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. But if her father opposes her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. And the Lord will forgive her, because her father opposed her. ...

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

1 Timothy 2:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For Adam was formed first, then Eve;

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 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. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, ...

1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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. ...

Romans 16:1-27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well. Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well. Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia. ...

28 Bible Verses about Women In Power

1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Isaiah 3:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 16:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Acts 2:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

John 4:1-54 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 18:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 30:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 16:1-27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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28 Bible Verses about Women In Power

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1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Isaiah 3:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 16:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Acts 2:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

John 4:1-54 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 18:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 30:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 16:1-27 ESV / 1 helpful vote