The Rights and Status of Women in the Holy Bible
It is important to note some Christian women feel that the Bible is against women’s rights, and their perspective should be respected and heard. However, it is important to recognize that the Bible is a complex and diverse text that can be interpreted in many ways, and there are many Christian women who do not believe that the Bible is inherently against women’s rights.
Here are some verses from the Bible that some women interpret as being against women’s rights:
Matthew 19:29
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
2 Corinthians 11:2-13
I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him, But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
1 Corinthians 11:9
New Living Translation
And man was not made for woman, but woman was made for man.
1 Timothy 2:11-14
A woman should learn in quietness and full submission, I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve, And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.
1 Corinthians 14:34-35
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. 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.
1 Corinthians 11:3
New International Version
But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
Ephesians 5:22
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Sirach 25:13 Catholic Biblie
Contemporary English Version
The breaking of your heart by an evil woman is the most painful of all injuries.
Sirach 22:3 Catholic Bible
Good News Translation
It is a disgrace to a father to have an undisciplined child, especially if it is a daughter.
Deuteronomy 25:11-12
New International Version
If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
Leviticus 21:9
If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.
Genesis 3:16
New International Version
To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.
Leviticus 12:5
If she gives birth to a daughter, for two weeks the woman will be unclean, as during her period. Then she must wait sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding.
Exodus 21:7-8
New International Version
If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself,he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.
Deuteronomy 22:28-29
If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,he shall pay her father fifty shekels[a] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
Leviticus 27:5
for a person between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekels and of a female at ten shekels.
Exodus 21:7-8
If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.
Exodus 21:20-21
Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.
Matthew 10:34
But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven. Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Additional Information
In this article, there may be certain interpretations that require insights from Christian scholars. If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to leave a comment or contact me via email.
