Original collection
MALE/FEMALE ROLES: Gen 3:16-19; Eph 5:22-33; 1 Tim 5:8, 14-15; Tit 2:4-5
Key KJV Scriptures:
Genesis 1:27; Matthew 19:4-6; Galatians 3:26-29; Ephesians 5:22-33; 1 Timothy 2:8-15; Titus 2:3-5; 1 Peter 3:1-7
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
38 indexed verses · Showing 1–38. Read each passage in its chapter context.
Genesis 1:27 (KJV)
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Matthew 19:4 (KJV)
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Matthew 19:5 (KJV)
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Matthew 19:6 (KJV)
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Galatians 3:26 (KJV)
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:27 (KJV)
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 3:28 (KJV)
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:29 (KJV)
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Ephesians 5:22 (KJV)
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:23 (KJV)
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Ephesians 5:24 (KJV)
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Ephesians 5:25 (KJV)
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:26 (KJV)
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Ephesians 5:27 (KJV)
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Ephesians 5:28 (KJV)
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Ephesians 5:29 (KJV)
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Ephesians 5:30 (KJV)
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Ephesians 5:31 (KJV)
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:32 (KJV)
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:33 (KJV)
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
1 Timothy 2:8 (KJV)
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
1 Timothy 2:9 (KJV)
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
1 Timothy 2:10 (KJV)
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
1 Timothy 2:11 (KJV)
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1 Timothy 2:12 (KJV)
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
1 Timothy 2:13 (KJV)
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
1 Timothy 2:14 (KJV)
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
1 Timothy 2:15 (KJV)
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
Titus 2:3 (KJV)
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Titus 2:4 (KJV)
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Titus 2:5 (KJV)
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
1 Peter 3:1 (KJV)
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
1 Peter 3:2 (KJV)
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
1 Peter 3:3 (KJV)
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
1 Peter 3:4 (KJV)
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
1 Peter 3:5 (KJV)
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
1 Peter 3:6 (KJV)
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
1 Peter 3:7 (KJV)
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.