Then Herod, when he saw that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the male children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.

“Haven’t you read,” He replied, “that He who created them in the beginning made them male and female,”

But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.

(just as it is written in the law of the Lord: Every firstborn male will be dedicated to the Lord)

But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female slaves, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

I will even pour out My Spirit
on My male and female slaves in those days,
and they will prophesy.

Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality,

There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

But she gave birth to a Son—a male who is going to shepherd all nations with an iron scepter—and her child was caught up to God and to His throne.

When the dragon saw that he had been thrown to earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.