Bible Verses About Women Pastors
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for women pastors, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,410 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 Pastors
1 Timothy 2:1274 votes
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
1 Corinthians 14:3461 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 Timothy 3:1-1349 votes
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Titus 1:6-947 votes
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
1 Timothy 2:11-1244 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1 Corinthians 14:34-3532 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 3:2830 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.
Titus 2:3-529 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;
Exodus 15:2028 votes
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
Romans 16:128 votes
I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
1 Corinthians 11:328 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.
Acts 2:1727 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:
Acts 18:2626 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.
Romans 16:1-426 votes
I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
1 Corinthians 12:1126 votes
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
1 Timothy 2:1326 votes
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Acts 18:24-2625 votes
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
Ephesians 5:22-3324 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Titus 1:624 votes
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
1 Timothy 2:1123 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1 Timothy 3:223 votes
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Genesis 3:1622 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 Corinthians 11:522 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.
Ephesians 4:11-1522 votes
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
1 Corinthians 11:1-3421 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
What does the Bible say about women pastors?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 2:12 on the subject of women pastors. Across 1,410 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 14:34, 1 Timothy 3:1-13, Titus 1:6-9. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.