Women Working

Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

She appraises a field and buys it; from her earnings she plants a vineyard.

The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.

Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good. …

In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.

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

And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.

Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.