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Bible Verses About the Value of a Woman, and the Women Scripture Puts at the Center

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Summary

  • The key verses are Genesis 1:27, Galatians 3:28 and Proverbs 31:25–30, with a referenced list of 14; the narrative of what women do in Scripture says as much.
  • Proverbs 31 is a twenty-two verse acrostic, presented as a mother’s advice to a king, traditionally sung by a husband to his wife. Eshet chayil uses the word elsewhere meaning army, strength and valour.
  • What she does in the poem: buys a field, plants a vineyard from her earnings, trades profitably, makes and sells linen. She is a merchant.
  • Deborah judges Israel and Barak will not go without her; Huldah is consulted when the lost book is found while Jeremiah is available; the longest recorded conversation Jesus has is with a Samaritan woman.
  • All four Gospels have women as the first witnesses of the resurrection, and Luke records that the men did not believe them. Romans 16 names Phoebe a deacon and Junia outstanding among the apostles.

The key verses on a woman’s value are Genesis 1:27, where God creates male and female in his image, Galatians 3:28, and Proverbs 31:25–30. Scripture’s accounts of what women did, and who it puts in the room at the moments that matter, say as much as the verses. Bible verses about a woman’s worth Genesis 1:27: God creates mankind in his image, “male and female.” Genesis 2:18: the woman is made as a “helper” (Hebrew ezer), the word the Psalms…

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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Genesis 1:27; 2:18; Judges 4:8; Ruth 3:11; 2 Kings 22:14; Psalm 33:20; 121:1-2; 139:13-14; Proverbs 31:10-31; Luke 1:45; 8:1-3; 10:38-42; 24:10-11; John 4; 20:17-18; Acts 2:17-18; Romans 16:1-7; Galatians 3:28; 1 Peter 3:3-4). The acrostic structure of Proverbs 31:10-31 and the semantic range of chayil are standard in commentary, as is the traditional Sabbath-eve singing of the poem. On Junia, the earliest manuscript evidence and patristic reading take the name as feminine, and this is the majority position in current scholarship.

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