Women Working

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Exodus

Every skilled woman spun with her hands and brought what she had spun—blue, purple or scarlet yarn or fine linen.

Judges

Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time.

1 Samuel

He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.

Proverbs

The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.

She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.

Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.

Colossians

And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

1 Timothy

I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.

In the same way, the women are to be worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.

Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander.

Titus

Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children,

to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.