What does the Bible say about the role of the older woman?
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The Bible calls older women to display mature godliness and to strengthen the church by teaching younger women what accords with sound doctrine. In Titus 2:3-5, they are to be reverent, self-controlled, truthful, and able to encourage younger women toward faithful love, purity, wise household stewardship, and submission to their own husbands, so that God’s word is honored. Their instruction arises chiefly from a life shaped by the gospel, not from worldly authority or gossip. First Timothy 3:11 likewise commends women who are dignified, sober-minded, and faithful. Scripture also honors women as necessary helpers in God’s good creation and as builders of their households through wisdom and godly conduct.
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- Titus 2:3-5
[3] and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; [4] that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, [5] to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.
- 1 Timothy 3:11
Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
- Titus 2:4-5
[4] that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, [5] to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.
- 1 Timothy 2:9-15
[9] In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing; [10] but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works. [11] Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. [12] But I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness. [13] For Adam was first formed, then Eve. [14] Adam wasn't deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience; [15] but she will be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.
- Genesis 2:18
Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
- Proverbs 14:1
Every wise woman builds her house, But the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
- 1 Timothy 5:1
Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
- 1 Timothy 5:2
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
- Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than to share a house with a contentious woman.
- 1 Peter 3:1-2
[1] In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; [2] seeing your pure behavior in fear.
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