Bible Verses About Women in Ministry
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for women in ministry, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,512 votes, led by Titus 2:3-5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Women in Ministry
Titus 2:3-562 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 14:3458 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.
Galatians 3:2849 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 14:34-3547 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 11:1-3445 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
1 Timothy 2:1245 votes
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
1 Corinthians 11:544 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 2:11-1244 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Genesis 2:1841 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.
1 Timothy 2:1-1541 votes
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
1 Timothy 2:11-1540 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Genesis 3:1639 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.
Titus 1:6-939 votes
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Titus 2:3-837 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 2:11-1435 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1 Timothy 3:1135 votes
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Romans 16:133 votes
I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
1 Timothy 2:1333 votes
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
1 Timothy 3:1-1333 votes
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Acts 18:2632 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.
Titus 1:632 votes
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Ephesians 5:22-3331 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Philippians 4:2-329 votes
I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
1 Timothy 3:1-1629 votes
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Joel 2:2827 votes
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
What does the Bible say about women in ministry?
Readers most often cite Titus 2:3-5 on the subject of women in ministry. Across 1,512 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 14:34, Galatians 3:28, 1 Corinthians 14:34-35. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.