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Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. ...
To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.
But every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven.
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. 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. For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. ...
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.
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,
Not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
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. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.
Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.
For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.
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.
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.
Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,
And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.
“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
My people—infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.
“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more;
Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps, and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb, and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are blameless.
The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
As he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
Who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.
As Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—
When they see your respectful and pure conduct.
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.
Or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.
Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
And to which of the angels has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?
If we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?
He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.
Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.
For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.
Knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
Because we are members of his body.
For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
So that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
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.
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.
On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.
If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. ...
If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.
Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered?
Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;
But every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. 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. For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. ...
But every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. 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.
Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head,
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...
Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,
Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,
Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.
For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,
God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
Saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us.”
When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk?
To take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”
Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)
He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ).
But from now on the Son of Man shall be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”
Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’
Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake.
And the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.
‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,
And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’
Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’
But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’
And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’
Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.
As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept.
But the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.
For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,
Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
“‘The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet’?
And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.
And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?”
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...
And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.
“Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors
Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.
“Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
The word of the Lord came to me:
As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the Lord has truly sent the prophet.”
Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the Lord, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the Lord.