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What Does the Bible Say About Evil Women?

Here are 12 Bible verses about evil women, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Proverbs 21:19

    It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

    BSBBetter to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

  2. #2Proverbs 30:20

    Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

    BSBThis is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

  3. #31 Timothy 2:12

    But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

    BSBI do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; she is to remain quiet.

  4. #4Psalms 140:2

    Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

    BSBwho devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.

  5. #5Proverbs 6:32

    But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

    BSBHe who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.

  6. #6Proverbs 27:15

    A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

    BSBA constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—

  7. #7Proverbs 11:22

    As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

    BSBLike a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

  8. #8Mark 10:12

    And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

    BSBAnd if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”

  9. #91 John 3:8

    He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

    BSBThe one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

  10. #10Proverbs 5:6

    Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

    BSBShe does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.

  11. #11Romans 7:15

    For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

    BSBI do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

  12. #12Romans 7:3

    So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

    BSBSo then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.

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