Bible Verses About Gender Roles
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for gender roles, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 12,252 votes, led by 1 Timothy 2:12. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Gender Roles
1 Timothy 2:12473 votes
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Galatians 3:28471 votes
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.
Colossians 3:18334 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Ephesians 5:22-33306 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Deuteronomy 22:5305 votes
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Genesis 1:27299 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 3:16285 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.
Genesis 2:18277 votes
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Acts 18:26260 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 11:12260 votes
For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
Judges 4:4222 votes
And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
Luke 10:38-42210 votes
Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
Mark 10:42-45200 votes
But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
Ephesians 5:21196 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Psalms 68:11194 votes
The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
Acts 2:17192 votes
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
1 Peter 3:1-22176 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 14:34-35172 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.
Genesis 2:1-25156 votes
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
1 Chronicles 7:24153 votes
(And his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth–horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen–sherah.)
Micah 6:4153 votes
For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
Colossians 3:1-25148 votes
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
1 Corinthians 11:1-34145 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Mark 16:9-11132 votes
Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
Ephesians 5:1-33132 votes
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
What does the Bible say about gender roles?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 2:12 on the subject of gender roles. Across 12,252 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Galatians 3:28, Colossians 3:18, Ephesians 5:22-33. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.