Bible Verses About Gender
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for gender, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,213 votes, led by Deuteronomy 22:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Gender
Deuteronomy 22:5303 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 1:27255 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Galatians 3:28161 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.
Leviticus 20:1391 votes
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Matthew 19:462 votes
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
1 Corinthians 11:1261 votes
For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
Leviticus 18:2253 votes
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
1 Corinthians 6:944 votes
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Genesis 3:1642 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 Peter 3:738 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.
Hebrews 13:436 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Psalms 68:1135 votes
The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
Matthew 19:1233 votes
For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
Genesis 2:1828 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 18:2625 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.
Ephesians 5:1-3325 votes
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Ephesians 5:22-3325 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
1 Corinthians 14:34-3524 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.
Micah 6:423 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.
Ephesians 5:2123 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Acts 2:1722 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:
Romans 1:26-2721 votes
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
1 Timothy 2:1221 votes
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
2 Peter 3:1-1821 votes
This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
Genesis 3:1-2420 votes
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
What does the Bible say about gender?
Readers most often cite Deuteronomy 22:5 on the subject of gender. Across 2,213 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 1:27, Galatians 3:28, Leviticus 20:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.