Bible Verses About Women Teaching

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.

Primary Bible passage often cited for this teaching.

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.

Completes the silence instruction in the same passage.

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

Direct apostolic prohibition on women teaching.

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

Direct Bible instruction that older women should teach what is good.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Direct Bible instruction that older women teach younger women.

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

Related Bible passage on learning in silence; useful background to the same issue.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

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Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

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Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

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

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

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

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

Related passage about younger women and purity.

For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

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If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

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For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

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And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

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She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

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