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Women Working Titus 2:5 ESV / 99 helpful votes To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 99 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. …Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 92 helpful votes 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.Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 63 helpful votes The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 61 helpful votes I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.Proverbs 31:16 ESV / 58 helpful votes She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.Genesis 2:18 ESV / 51 helpful votes Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 44 helpful votes The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. …1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 40 helpful votes So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 38 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 Timothy 3:11 ESV / 38 helpful votes Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.Colossians 3:17 ESV / 37 helpful votes And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.Proverbs 31:31 ESV / 37 helpful votes Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.1 Samuel 8:13 ESV / 37 helpful votes He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.Judges 4:4 ESV / 37 helpful votes Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.Proverbs 31:24 ESV / 33 helpful votes She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant.Exodus 35:25 ESV / 33 helpful votes And every skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.Proverbs 2:4-7 ESV / 30 helpful votes If you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,Titus 2:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 25 helpful votes 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.Proverbs 31:28-31 ESV / 25 helpful votes Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 25 helpful votes An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.Luke 8:1-3 ESV / 24 helpful votes Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.
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