Bible Verses About Womanhood
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for womanhood, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 509 votes, led by Proverbs 14:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Womanhood
Proverbs 14:152 votes
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
Proverbs 31:10-3144 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Titus 2:3-535 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;
Proverbs 11:2231 votes
As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Proverbs 18:2227 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Proverbs 19:1426 votes
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
1 Peter 3:526 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 1:2723 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
1 Peter 3:122 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;
Psalms 68:1121 votes
The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
Genesis 3:1620 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.
Galatians 3:2817 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.
1 Corinthians 11:1216 votes
For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
Ephesians 5:22-2416 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:315 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.
1 Timothy 2:9-1214 votes
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;
Psalms 113:913 votes
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.
Luke 10:38-4213 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.
Proverbs 31:1712 votes
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
Luke 2:36-3812 votes
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
1 Peter 3:712 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.
Deuteronomy 22:511 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.
Ephesians 5:2511 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Genesis 2:1810 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.
Judges 5:24-2710 votes
Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
What does the Bible say about womanhood?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 14:1 on the subject of womanhood. Across 509 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 31:10-31, Titus 2:3-5, Proverbs 11:22. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.