These Bible verses for women offer encouragement for the many roles women carry, whether at home, at work, in caregiving or in quiet seasons of waiting. Promises such as Zephaniah 3:17, which says the Lord rejoices over his people with joy, and Psalm 46:5, God is in the midst of her, speak to worth and steadiness. Read them when you need reminding whose you are.
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
Psalms 46:5 (KJV)
God is in the midst of her, and she shall not be moved, a promise of steadiness.
The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17 (KJV)
The Lord is mighty to save and rejoices over his people with joy and singing.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Psalms 139:14 (KJV)
Praising God for being fearfully and wonderfully made counters comparison and self-doubt.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV)
God knows his thoughts toward his people, thoughts of peace and a hoped-for end.
But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Isaiah 43:1-2 (KJV)
God calls his people by name and promises to be with them through deep waters and fire.
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2 Corinthians 12:9 (KJV)
God’s grace is sufficient and his strength is made perfect in weakness.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7 (KJV)
Every worry can be brought to God in prayer, with his peace keeping heart and mind.
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Psalms 34:18 (KJV)
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves those with a contrite spirit.
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
Isaiah 54:10 (KJV)
Though mountains depart, God’s kindness and covenant of peace will not be removed.
And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
Luke 1:45 (KJV)
Elizabeth blesses Mary for believing that God’s promises to her would be fulfilled.
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6 (KJV)
Trusting the Lord fully and acknowledging him in every decision brings direction.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28 (KJV)
All things work together for good to those who love God, even in confusing seasons.
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23 (KJV)
God’s mercies do not fail but are new every morning, strength for tired days.
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
John 14:27 (KJV)
Jesus gives a peace unlike the world’s, so hearts need not be troubled or afraid.
Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
Hebrews 11:11 (KJV)
Sara received strength to conceive because she judged God faithful who had promised.
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Isaiah 40:29 (KJV)
God gives power to the faint and increases strength for those who have none.
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
1 Peter 5:7 (KJV)
Every care can be cast on God, because he cares for you.
Start small by choosing one verse each morning and reading it slowly before checking your phone. Psalm 139:14 and Isaiah 43:1 are good anchors on days when comparison or self-doubt creeps in. Writing the verse in a journal and adding a short prayer turns reading into conversation with God.
Some verses fit particular seasons. When you are exhausted from caring for others, Isaiah 40:29 and 2 Corinthians 12:9 remind you that God gives power to the faint. When anxiety builds, Philippians 4:6-7 and 1 Peter 5:7 invite you to hand every care to him. Women waiting on a promise may find comfort in Sara’s faith in Hebrews 11:11.
These verses are also a gift to pass on. Text one to a friend, include one in a card, or read them together in a women’s Bible study. If grief, anxiety or depression lingers, reaching out to a counsellor or doctor is a wise step alongside prayer and the support of your church.
Among the most tender healing accounts in the Gospels is a woman with no name given, only a condition that had defined her life for twelve long years. Mark 5:25-34 and Luke 8:43-48 describe her as one who had suffered many things from many physicians, spending everything she had, and growing worse rather than better. These Bible Verses For Women speak directly to anyone who has spent years seeking relief from a burden that medicine, money, or effort could not fix.
She heard about Jesus and made a decision that cost her something. Under Jewish law, her condition made her ceremonially unclean, meaning she was not supposed to touch anyone in public. Yet she pressed into a crowded street, believing that even the edge of His garment would be enough.
Lord, there are seasons when I feel like I am pressing through a crowd that does not notice me, carrying a weight that has gone on far longer than I expected. Like the woman who reached for the hem of Your garment, I bring my need to You even when I feel unseen. Thank You for being the God who stops for the one person others might overlook.
Give me the same quiet courage she had, to reach for You even when I am unsure of the outcome. Let me trust that my faith, however small it feels today, is enough to bring me into Your presence. These Bible Verses For Women remind me that You see what others miss.
These simple practices turn Bible Verses For Women from something read into something lived, one honest step at a time.
Spend a week walking through Scripture passages that echo her story of reaching, waiting, and being seen by God.
Twelve years is not a short trial. It is more than four thousand mornings of waking up still unwell, still spending money, still hoping the next remedy would work. Luke, who was himself a physician, notes plainly that no one could heal her. Her story matters to Bible Verses For Women precisely because it does not rush past the length of her suffering, but names it honestly before describing her healing. Many Bible Verses For Women speak to exactly this kind of prolonged waiting, refusing to minimize how long the suffering lasted before relief finally came.
Her condition carried social weight beyond the physical toll. Leviticus 15 describes ceremonial uncleanness tied to such a condition, meaning contact with others in public was discouraged and could cause embarrassment for both parties. She chose to enter the crowd anyway, calculating that the risk of exposure was worth the chance of healing. Bible Verses For Women often highlight this kind of costly courage, choosing faith over the fear of what people might think or say.
In a crowd large enough to press in from every side, she managed only to touch the hem of His garment, likely the tassel Jewish men wore according to Numbers 15:38. It was a brief, quiet gesture, yet Jesus immediately turned and asked who had touched Him. His disciples were confused, since many people were touching Him accidentally in the crush of the crowd. But this touch was different, carried by deliberate faith rather than accident. This moment sits among the Bible Verses For Women that show faith expressed through action rather than only words.
Rather than letting her slip away healed but silent, Jesus asked the question that drew her forward. Mark records that she came fearing and trembling, and told him all the truth. This public moment mattered. It transformed a private miracle into a testimony the whole crowd could hear, including Jairus, whose dying daughter was the reason the crowd had gathered in the first place. Her honesty became part of someone else’s story of faith.
Of all the titles Jesus could have used, He chose the most personal one available. Daughter was not a word used casually for a stranger in a crowd. It placed her inside the family of faith, not as an outsider seeking a favor but as someone He claimed. Among Bible Verses For Women, this single word carries enormous weight, showing that healing was never only physical but also relational, restoring her place among God’s people.
Jesus was on His way to heal Jairus’s dying daughter when this woman touched His garment, and the delay could have cost precious time. Yet He stopped completely, searching the crowd until He found her. He never treated her need as a distraction from His larger mission. This detail matters for Bible Verses For Women who worry that their need is too small or poorly timed to interrupt God’s greater plans.
Jesus told her that her faith had made her whole, using a Greek word that means saved or made complete, not merely cured of a physical symptom. This distinction matters. Her body was healed, but Jesus described something larger happening, a wholeness that touched her dignity, her standing in the community, and her relationship with God. Bible Verses For Women that focus only on physical outcomes miss this deeper restoration she received that day.
While Jesus paused for this woman, Jairus stood nearby watching his daughter’s condition grow more urgent by the minute, and messengers soon arrived saying she had died. It would have been easy for Jesus to hurry past the woman for the sake of the more urgent case. Instead, He gave her His full attention, then turned and told Jairus not to be afraid, only believe. Both situations required faith, and neither person was shortchanged by the other’s need being met first. Her situation stands among the Bible Verses For Women that show God’s attention is never divided or rationed between competing needs.
Her healing did not happen on her own schedule. Twelve years passed before this moment in the crowd, yet the delay was not a sign that God had forgotten her. Bible Verses For Women often speak to exactly this tension, waiting seasons that stretch far longer than expected before an answer finally comes. Her story teaches that a long wait and a genuine encounter with God are not opposites, but can be part of the same journey toward wholeness.
May you have the courage of the woman who reached through the crowd, believing that even a small act of faith is enough to reach the heart of God. May you never feel that your need is too small, too old, or too shameful to bring before Him. May you carry this same confidence into every uncertain crowd you must walk through in the seasons ahead.
May you hear Him call you by name, the way He called her daughter, and may that word settle into your identity long after the physical need is met. These Bible Verses For Women are for every woman still reaching, still waiting, still believing that wholeness is possible.
Psalm 139:14 says, ‘I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.’ David wrote it as worship, but a woman standing at a bathroom mirror at six in the morning can hear it as a quiet argument with the voice in her head. That voice measures her skin, her weight, her gray hair, her stretch marks, and usually finds her short.
Look at the verbs. The psalmist does not say he is told he is wonderful; he says his soul knows it well. It is a knowing that grows by repetition, the way a path gets worn into a field. Some women need to say the verse out loud, slowly, a dozen mornings in a row before it sinks past the surface. That is not silly. It is retraining a habit of thought.
A gentle caution belongs here. Verses are not a replacement for help when self-hatred runs deep. If the mirror has become a place of real torment, or food and body image have taken over your days, talking to a counselor or doctor is wise, and God is not offended by that. The same Lord who made you can work through a person with training in how minds heal.
Zephaniah 3:17 is easy to skim: ‘The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.’ The prophet was speaking to a Jerusalem that had a lot to be ashamed of. Idols, corrupt leaders, injustice. And still the promise ends with a God who sings.
Picture a mother at three in the morning walking a restless baby back and forth, humming something with no real tune. That is closer to the image than a stage performance. Singing over someone is what you do when you are delighted and not in a hurry. For a woman who has spent years feeling like a problem to manage, a task on everyone’s list, the verse offers a different picture, being the one a mighty God quiets himself over.
Notice also the phrase ‘in the midst of thee.’ Not far above, not watching from a distance. This is a God who has moved into the neighborhood of your life, into the laundry and the commute and the hard conversation on Thursday. Try reading it slowly after the house goes quiet. Let the singing be the last thing you hear before sleep, not the to-do list.
The first chapter of 1 Samuel gives us a woman many readers recognize at once. Hannah was married and loved, yet childless in a culture that treated that as a disgrace, and her husband’s other wife taunted her about it every year at the feast in Shiloh. One year she got up from the meal and went to the tabernacle and wept as she prayed. Her lips moved, but no sound came out.
Eli the priest, watching from his seat, assumed she was drunk and said so. Hannah answered him gently and honestly: she was a woman of sorrowful spirit, pouring out her soul before the LORD. After he blessed her, she went away and ate, and her face was no more sad (1 Samuel 1:18). Nothing had changed yet. She had simply put the weight down.
Psalm 34:18 sits well beside this scene: ‘The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.’ Hannah did not get a miracle by praying prettily. She got heard. Sometimes the first answer to a long, unspoken ache is that someone finally knows. If you can only pray with your lips moving and no sentences, that is still prayer.
Hebrews 11:11 puts Sarah in the hall of faith: ‘Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.’ That is a generous summary of a woman whose own story in Genesis is much messier. When she overheard the promise of a son, she laughed (Genesis 18:12). Earlier she had tried to solve the problem her own way through her servant Hagar, and the fallout was painful for everyone.
The writer of Hebrews does not hide any of that; he simply points to the turning point. She ‘judged him faithful.’ After the laughter and the failed shortcuts and the decades of waiting, she came to a conclusion about God’s character, and that conclusion held her up. Faith, in this telling, is less a feeling than a verdict.
For a woman waiting on something, a diagnosis, a child, a reconciliation, a job, Sarah’s record is steadying precisely because it is unpolished. You do not have to wait perfectly. You are allowed to be tired, even sarcastic. What counts is where you land: that the One who promised can be trusted. Luke 1:45 echoes the same truth for Mary: ‘blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.’
Lamentations 3:22-23 was written in the ruins of Jerusalem. The author had watched his city burn and was not in a mood for slogans. And still he says, ‘It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.’ The words come out of grief, not around it.
New every morning does not mean every morning feels new. Some days begin with the same ache, the same unopened email, the same child who will not eat breakfast. The claim is about supply, not mood. Whatever you used up yesterday, patience, nerve, forgiveness, the account has been refilled by the time your feet touch the floor.
Pair it with 1 Peter 5:7, ‘Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you,’ and the habit becomes concrete. Name the cares one at a time, aloud if you can, and hand each over before you start the day. You may pick some of them up again by noon. Most of us do. The invitation stands, and the mercies keep arriving. If worry has grown so heavy that sleep, appetite, or ordinary tasks are slipping away, tell a doctor or a counselor as well; asking for that help is a form of casting your care, too.
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Start small by choosing one verse each morning and reading it slowly before checking your phone. Psalm 139:14 and Isaiah 43:1 are good anchors on days when comparison or self-doubt creeps in.
This page brings together 14 King James Version references about women, drawn from 10 different books of the Bible.
These women verses are drawn from books including Psalm, Isaiah, 2 Corinthians, Philippians, 1 Peter, among others.
Yes. The verses about women gathered here include passages from both the Old Testament and the New Testament, such as Psalm 139:14 and 2 Corinthians 12:9.
Psalm 139:14 is one of the verses about women referenced in this collection, alongside Isaiah 43:1.
