What does the Bible say about the role of the woman?

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• Titus 2:3-5 3 votes

  [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.

• Genesis 2:18 3 votes

  Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

• 1 Timothy 2:11-15 3 votes

  [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.

• Titus 2:4-5 2 votes

  [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 Corinthians 11:3 2 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.

• Galatians 3:28 2 votes

  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

• 1 Timothy 2:12 2 votes

  But I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

• 1 Peter 3:7 2 votes

  You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

• Genesis 3:16 2 votes

  To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

• 1 Timothy 3:11 2 votes

  Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

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