20 Bible Verses About Women, Including What Women Did in Scripture

Christian Pure Team

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Zusammenfassung

  • Alongside instructions, Scripture records what women did: leading, supporting Jesus’ ministry, hosting churches and carrying the news of the resurrection.
  • Helper in Genesis 2:18 translates ezer, a word used mostly of God helping Israel, and carries no sense of junior.
  • Luke 8:3 records that the ministry was funded by women out of their own means, naming three and saying there were many more.
  • Paul calls Phoebe a deacon and a benefactor, and names Priscilla ahead of her husband in four of the six places the pair appears.
  • All four Gospels have women at the empty tomb first, and in Luke the apostles did not at first believe them.

The Bible’s verses about women include instructions and many reports of what women did, from leading a nation to supporting Jesus’ ministry and carrying the news of the resurrection. Luke names women who supported Jesus and his disciples out of their own means (Luke 8:2-3). Romans 16 mentions ten women and calls one of them, Phoebe, a deacon. In John’s Gospel, Mary Magdalene is the first to see the risen Jesus and the first to tell the disciples. The twenty…

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Literaturverzeichnis (Zum Anzeigen klicken)

Die Bibelzitate stammen aus der „New International Version“.

Jael and the tent peg are at Judges 4:17-22; the song Deborah sings afterwards is Judges 5.

The warning that precedes the famous half of Esther 4:14 is in the same verse; Naomi tells Ruth to turn back at Ruth 1:8 and again at 1:12.

The disciples’ response to Mary Magdalene is recorded at Luke 24:11 and Mark 16:11.

Priscilla and Aquila appear at Acts 18:2, 18:18 and 18:26, Romans 16:3, 1 Corinthians 16:19 and 2 Timothy 4:19.

The acrostic runs from Proverbs 31:10 to 31:31, one verse for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

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