gender
What does the Bible say about gender? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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5A woman shall not be clothed with manly apparel, nor shall a man make use of feminine apparel. For whoever does these things is abominable with God.
27And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.
28There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither servant nor free; there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
13If any man has slept with a male in place of sexual intercourse with a female, both have committed a nefarious act, they shall die a death. So let their blood be upon them.
4And he said to them in response, “Have you not read that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female?” And he said:
22You shall not commit sexual acts with a male, in place of sexual intercourse with a female, for this is an abomination.
12For just as woman came into existence from man, so also does man exist through woman. But all things are from God.
9Do you not know that the iniquitous will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not choose to wander astray. For neither fornicators, nor servants of idolatry, nor adulterers,
16To the woman, he also said: “I will multiply your labors and your conceptions. In pain shall you give birth to sons, and you shall be under your husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over you.”
7Similarly, you husbands should live with them in accord with knowledge, bestowing honor on the female as the weaker vessel and as co-heirs of the life of grace, so that your prayers may not be hindered.