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100 Bible Verses about Pursuing A Woman

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 1,938 helpful votes

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 1,116 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 Corinthians 11:12 ESV / 1,076 helpful votes

For as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.

Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 887 helpful votes

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 815 helpful votes

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 814 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Luke 1:45 ESV / 813 helpful votes

And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”

Proverbs 11:16 ESV / 813 helpful votes

A gracious woman gets honor, and violent men get riches.

1 Corinthians 15:10 ESV / 804 helpful votes

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

Proverbs 19:13 ESV / 803 helpful votes

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 801 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

1 Timothy 3:11 ESV / 791 helpful votes

Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.

John 3:16 ESV / 789 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 6:24 ESV / 783 helpful votes

To preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 782 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

Proverbs 31:16-17 ESV / 767 helpful votes

She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 763 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

John 14:6 ESV / 739 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 723 helpful votes

It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

Proverbs 21:9 ESV / 719 helpful votes

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 717 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 714 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. ...

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 712 helpful votes

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 710 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 710 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Psalm 46:5 ESV / 696 helpful votes

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.

John 14:27 ESV / 661 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

John 15:13 ESV / 660 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 657 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

John 15:12 ESV / 651 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 646 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 645 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 645 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 645 helpful votes

“If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 643 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 640 helpful votes

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Matthew 22:39 ESV / 640 helpful votes

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 627 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 626 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 625 helpful votes

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Proverbs 31:16 ESV / 621 helpful votes

She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 618 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Romans 8:18 ESV / 609 helpful votes

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 609 helpful votes

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 607 helpful votes

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 600 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 592 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 591 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 591 helpful votes

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

John 10:10 ESV / 587 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 577 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 574 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 565 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 565 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 562 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 558 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 555 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 553 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 550 helpful votes

Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. ...

1 Corinthians 11:8 ESV / 540 helpful votes

For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.

1 Corinthians 11:9 ESV / 530 helpful votes

Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

1 Corinthians 11:6 ESV / 526 helpful votes

For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head.

1 Peter 3:1-2 ESV / 486 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct.

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 483 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 478 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 464 helpful votes

“A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 460 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 457 helpful votes

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 449 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Leviticus 20:16 ESV / 447 helpful votes

If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

John 8:10 ESV / 439 helpful votes

Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

John 4:9 ESV / 437 helpful votes

The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

2 Chronicles 18:32 ESV / 437 helpful votes

For as soon as the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.

1 Kings 22:33 ESV / 437 helpful votes

And when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.

Ephesians 5:22-23 ESV / 435 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

1 Kings 18:27 ESV / 423 helpful votes

And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”

1 Kings 3:17 ESV / 423 helpful votes

The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 413 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

2 Samuel 18:16 ESV / 403 helpful votes

Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained them.

2 Samuel 14:2 ESV / 395 helpful votes

And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, “Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.

2 Samuel 3:22 ESV / 395 helpful votes

Just then the servants of David arrived with Joab from a raid, bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.

1 Samuel 28:12 ESV / 387 helpful votes

When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice. And the woman said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul.”

1 Samuel 23:28 ESV / 379 helpful votes

So Saul returned from pursuing after David and went against the Philistines. Therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape.

Judges 8:5 ESV / 376 helpful votes

So he said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

Judges 8:4 ESV / 341 helpful votes

And Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the 300 men who were with him, exhausted yet pursuing.

Proverbs 31:26 ESV / 339 helpful votes

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

Deuteronomy 17:5 ESV / 332 helpful votes

Then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 330 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 327 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Numbers 12:1 ESV / 327 helpful votes

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.

Exodus 21:22 ESV / 322 helpful votes

“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.

Genesis 3:13 ESV / 309 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 297 helpful votes

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 287 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 272 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 227 helpful votes

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 226 helpful votes

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 183 helpful votes

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

1 Kings 11:1-43 ESV / 160 helpful votes

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. ...

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 157 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

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