Bible Verses About Women In Church Leadership

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.

Direct Bible passage often cited by the fathers

And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

Parallel Bible wording on silence in church

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

Direct Bible restriction on teaching or authority

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

Bible passage about aged women teaching good things

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

Bible passage about elder women and younger women in ordered roles

And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

Bible passage about honoring widows

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

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.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.