20 Bible Verses About Women, Including the Ones These Lists Leave Out

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Resumen

  • The most-quoted verses about women are prescriptive; the most informative ones are reports of what women actually did.
  • 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.
  • Every Gospel keeps the detail that a woman carried the resurrection news first and the disciples did not believe her.

The verses quoted most often about women are the prescriptive ones. The verses that tell us most are the reports. Luke names the women who paid for the ministry out of their own money. Paul greets ten of them in a single chapter and calls one a deacon. John has a woman carry the first news of the resurrection to men who did not believe her. None of that is instruction about what a woman should be; it is a…

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Las citas bíblicas provienen de la Nueva Versión Internacional.

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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