102 Bible Verses about Gender Roles
Want to know what the Bible says about Gender Roles? Here are 102 Bible verses about Gender Roles from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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Genesis 3:16-19 NIV
16 To the woman he said,
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you. ”
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you. ”
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”
14
Colossians 3:18-19 NIV
18 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
14
1 Peter 3:1-2 NIV
3 Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, 2 when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.
14
Genesis 2:20 NIV
So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
14
Ephesians 5:24 NIV
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
14
Genesis 3:17 NIV
To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
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Genesis 2:22 NIV
Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
13
Proverbs 19:14 NIV
Houses and wealth are inherited from parents,
but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
12
Ephesians 6:4 NIV
Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
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