ARE YOU SURE?

Are you sure the stereotypes you’ve been taught about women accurately portray the feminine gender roles of the Bible? Explore what the biblical texts actually say about women and gender roles in the overview below.

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FAMILIAL GENDER ROLES

• Wives Be Subject to Your Husbands (Ephesians 5: 22-24)

• Wives Be Subject to Your Husbands (Colossians 3:18)

• Let a Woman Learn in Silence and Profess Reverence for God (1 Tim 2:11-15)

• Women Should Be Silent in Churches (1 Corinthians 14: 33-35)

• Husband is the Head of the Wife (1 Corinthians 11:3-16)

• Wives Exhorted (1 Peter 3:1-6)

• Older and Younger Women Exhorted (Titus 2:4-5)

GOSPELS

• Mothers and Daughters (and Fathers and Sons) Not to Be Loved More Than Jesus (Matthew 10:37)

• Mother (and Father), Wife (and Children, and Sisters (and Brothers) to Be Hated by Jesus’ Disciples

• Mothers and Sisters Left for the Sake of Jesus

• Wife (and Husband and Children) Sold to Pay Off Debt (Matthew 18:25)

PAULINE CORPUS

• Nurse Caring for Her Children

• The Free Woman, Mother of a Son of Abraham

• Unnatural Intercourse of Women

• “Does 1 Timothy 2 Prohibit Women from Teaching, Leading, and Speaking in the Church?”