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Womanhood Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 47 helpful votes The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 36 helpful votes An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. …Proverbs 11:22 ESV / 25 helpful votes Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 24 helpful votes He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 23 helpful votes House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.Genesis 3:16 ESV / 22 helpful votes To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 21 helpful votes Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.1 Peter 3:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,Psalm 68:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes The Lord gives the word; the women who announce the news are a great host:1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,Genesis 1:27 ESV / 19 helpful votes So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.1 Corinthians 11:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes For as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.Galatians 3:28 ESV / 14 helpful votes There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 13 helpful votes Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.Luke 10:38-42 ESV / 12 helpful votes Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 11 helpful votes Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,Psalm 113:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!1 Timothy 2:9-12 ESV / 10 helpful votes Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works. Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.Luke 2:36-38 ESV / 9 helpful votes And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin, and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. And coming up at that very hour she began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.Judges 5:24-27 ESV / 9 helpful votes “Most blessed of wome
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