For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman;

but while the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, the son by the free woman was born in fulfilment of a promise.

But what does the Scripture say? Send away the slave-woman and her son; for the slave's son shall not be heir along with the son of the free woman.

So, brothers, we are the children of no slave woman, but of free woman. For freedom did not Christ set us free;

Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.

If a woman does not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair; now if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her be veiled.

For it is not man who was made from woman, but woman was made from man.

And man was not created for woman, but woman for man.

However, in the Lord neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman;

for just as the woman was made from the man, so also is the man born of the woman, while they both come from God.

"You have rightly judged." answered Jesus, and turning to the woman, he said to Simon. "Do you see this woman? When I came into your house you gave me no water for my feet; but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

"How is it," answered the Samaritan woman, "that you who are a Jew ask a drink from me, a woman, and a Samaritan?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

Among the disciples at Joppa was a woman named Tabitha??hich may be translated Dorcas or "Gazelle"?? woman whose life was full of good works and almsgiving, which she was doing continually.