Bible Verses About Female Pastors
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for female pastors, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,772 votes, led by 1 Timothy 2:11-12. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Female Pastors
1 Timothy 2:11-12264 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1 Corinthians 14:34-35239 votes
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
1 Timothy 3:1-7186 votes
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Titus 1:5-9170 votes
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
1 Timothy 2:12141 votes
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
1 Corinthians 14:34121 votes
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Titus 2:3-599 votes
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
1 Timothy 3:268 votes
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Ephesians 5:22-3345 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Titus 2:1-1544 votes
But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
1 Peter 3:135 votes
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;
1 Corinthians 11:1-3434 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
1 Peter 3:5-627 votes
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
Genesis 3:1626 votes
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
1 Corinthians 11:3-1619 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.
2 Timothy 4:319 votes
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Titus 2:119 votes
But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
Titus 1:616 votes
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
1 Peter 3:715 votes
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
2 Timothy 2:214 votes
And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
1 Timothy 2:1113 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1 Timothy 3:1213 votes
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
1 John 4:113 votes
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 Timothy 2:12-1412 votes
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
1 Timothy 5:1712 votes
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
What does the Bible say about female pastors?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 2:11-12 on the subject of female pastors. Across 1,772 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, 1 Timothy 3:1-7, Titus 1:5-9. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.