Bible Verses About Women in Church
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for women in church, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 249 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 Women in Church
1 Timothy 2:1230 votes
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
1 Corinthians 14:3425 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 Corinthians 11:321 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.
Ephesians 5:2217 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Genesis 3:1616 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 Timothy 2:11-1515 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1 Timothy 3:214 votes
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1 Corinthians 11:813 votes
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
1 Timothy 2:1513 votes
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
Genesis 2:1-2512 votes
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Titus 2:3-512 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 Corinthians 14:34-3511 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 Corinthians 11:1-3410 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
1 Corinthians 11:510 votes
But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
1 Timothy 2:12-1510 votes
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
1 Timothy 3:1-1610 votes
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Titus 2:410 votes
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
What does the Bible say about women in church?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 2:12 on the subject of women in church. Across 249 votes, 17 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 14:34, 1 Corinthians 11:3, Ephesians 5:22. This page lists all 17 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.