I persecuted this Way even to the death, and kept on binding both men and women and putting them in jail,

for they had utterly transformed the reality of God into what was unreal, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies, she is freed from the marriage bond.

the patriarchs, and from them by natural descent the Christ has come, who is exalted over all, God blessed forever. Amen!

For from Him everything comes, through Him everything lives, and for Him everything exists. Glory to Him forever! Amen.

The peace-giving God be with you all! Amen.

to the one wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ. Amen.

but because of so much sexual immorality every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.

and a woman who has a husband that is not a believer, but he consents to live with her, must not divorce her husband.

About unmarried women I have no command from the Lord, but I will give you my opinion as of one who is trustworthy, since I have had mercy shown me by the Lord.

An unmarried woman or a girl is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, so as to be consecrated in body and spirit, but a married woman is concerned about the affairs of the world, and how she can please her husband.

and any woman who prays or prophesies bareheaded dishonors her head, for it is one and the same thing with having her head shaved.

For if a woman will not wear a veil, let her have her hair cut off too. Now if it is a dishonor for a woman to have her hair cut off, or her head shaved, let her wear a veil.

For a man ought not to wear anything on his head, because he is the image and reflected glory of God, but woman is man's reflected glory.

For man did not originate from woman, but woman did from man,

and man was not created for woman's sake, but woman was for man's sake.

This is why woman ought to wear upon her head a symbol of man's authority, especially out of respect to the angels.

But from the Lord's point of view woman is not independent of man nor man of woman.

For just as woman originated from man, so man is born of woman, and both, with everything else, originated from God.

You must judge for yourselves in this matter. Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with nothing on her head?

but that it is a woman's glory to do so? For her hair is given her for a covering.

how is the man who occupies the place of the illiterate to say "Amen" to your thanksgiving? For he does not know what you are saying.

Women must keep quiet in the churches, for no permission is given them to speak. On the contrary, they must take a subordinate place, just as the law says.

If they want to find out about something, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

But with Him it is always "Yes," for, as many as the promises of God may be, through Him they are always "Yes." This is why our "Amen" through Him is for the glory of God when spoken by us.

to Him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

but when the proper time had come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born subject to law,

For the Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave girl, the other by a free woman.

But the child of the slave girl was born in the ordinary course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born to fulfill the promise.

This is spoken as an allegory. For these women are two covenants, one coming from Mount Sinai, bearing children that are to be slaves;

For the Scripture says: "Rejoice, you childless woman, who never bore a child; break forth into shouting, you who feel no birth pangs; for the desolate woman has many children, even more than the married one."

But what does the Scripture say? "Drive off the slave girl and her son, for the slave girl's son shall never share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."

So, brothers, we are children, not of a slave girl but of a free woman.

The spiritual blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.

be glory in the church and through Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

You married women must continue to live in subordination to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,

Just as the church is subject to Christ, so the married women in everything must be subject to their husbands.

But each one of you married men must love his wife as he loves himself, and the married woman, too, must respect her husband.

And I solemnly beg you, my true comrade, keep on cooperating with those two women, because they shared with me the struggle in spreading the good news, together with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Glory to our God and Father forever and ever. Amen.

You married women must continue to live in subordination to your husbands, for this is your Christian duty.

When people say, "Such peace and security!" then suddenly destruction falls upon them, like birth pains upon a woman who is about to become a mother, but they shall not escape, no, not at all.

To the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.

I want the women, on their part, to dress becomingly, that is, modestly and sensibly, not adorning themselves with braided hair and gold or pearls or expensive dresses,

but with good deeds; for this is appropriate for women who profess to be pious.

A married woman must learn in quiet and in perfect submission.

I do not permit a married woman to practice teaching or domineering over a husband; she must keep quiet.

and it was not Adam who was deceived, but it was the woman who was utterly deceived and fell into transgression.

But women will be saved through motherhood, if they continue to live in faith, love, and purity, blended with good sense.

But make it your habit to let worldly and old women's stories alone. Continue training yourself for the religious life.

older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, with perfect purity.

But a woman who is really a widow and lives alone has fixed her hope on God, and night and day devotes herself to prayers and entreaties,

So I would have the younger women marry, have children, and keep house, so as not to give our opponents any occasion for slander.

If a Christian woman has widowed relatives, she should help them, and let the church be free from the burden, so that it can help the widows who are really dependent.

who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

For some of them practice going into people's houses and capturing weak and silly women who are overwhelmed with the weight of their sins, who are easily led about by all sorts of evil impulses,

The Lord will rescue me from every wicked work and save me to His heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

the older women, too, to be reverent in their deportment, and not to be slanderers or slaves to heavy drinking, but to be teachers of what is right,

so as to train the younger women to be affectionate wives and mothers,

Women by a resurrection received their dead again; others endured tortures, because they would not accept release, that they might rise to a better life.

perfectly fit you to do His will, He Himself, through Jesus Christ, accomplishing through you what is pleasing to Him. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

God's spiritual blessings be with you all. Amen.

You married women, in the same way, must be submissive to your husbands, so that, if any of them do not believe the message, they may be won over without a word through the living of the wives,

For this is the way the pious women of olden times, who set their hope on God, used to adorn themselves.

If anyone is preaching, let him do it as one who utters the oracles of God; if anyone is rendering any service to others, let him do it with all the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

To Him be dominion forever. Amen.

to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, might, and authority, as it was before all time, both now and forever and ever. Amen.

and has made us a kingdom of priests for His God and Father: to Him be glory forever. Amen.

See! He is coming on the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even the men who pierced Him, and all the tribes of the earth will lament over Him. Even so. Amen.

But I hold it against you that you are tolerating that Jezebel of a woman who claims to be a prophetess, and by her teaching is misleading my slaves to practice immorality and to eat meat that has been sacrificed to idols.

"To the messenger of the church in Laodicea write: 'The Amen, the true and faithful witness, the origin of God's creation, speaks as follows:

Then the four living creatures said, "Amen!" And the elders fell down and worshiped.

saying: "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen!"

they had hair that looked like women's hair; their teeth were like lions' teeth;

Then a great symbol was seen in heaven -- a woman clothed in the sun with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

His tail was dragging after it a third part of the stars of heaven and dashed them down upon the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth to a child, in order to devour her child as soon as it was born.

Then the woman fled into the desert, where she had a place of safety made ready by God, so that she might be cared for one thousand, two hundred and sixty days.

When the dragon saw that he had been hurled down to the earth, he started persecuting the woman who had given birth to the male child.

But the two wings of a great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly to her place in the desert, where she could be taken care of for a time, times, and a half-time, safe from the presence of the serpent.

Then the serpent made water, like a river, spout from his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with its torrent.

But the earth helped the woman, for it opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon made to spout from his mouth.

So the dragon was enraged against the woman, and he went off to make war with the rest of her descendants, who continue to keep God's commands and to bear testimony to Jesus.

These are the men who have not been defiled by relations with women, for they are as pure as virgins, These are the men who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been redeemed from among men as the first fruits for God and the Lamb,

So he carried me away in spiritual rapture to a desert, and I saw a woman seated on a scarlet wild beast, covered with blasphemous titles; he had seven heads and ten horns.

The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, decorated in gold and precious stones and pearls, and she had in her hand a cup of gold, full of abominations and the impurities of her immorality.

I saw the woman drinking herself drunk with the blood of God's people and the blood of the martyred witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was utterly astonished,

but the angel said to me: "Why are you astonished? I will tell you the symbolical meaning of the woman, and the wild beast with seven heads and ten horns, that carries her.

Here is scope for a mind that is packed with wisdom. The seven heads are the seven hills on which the woman is seated.

And the woman whom you saw is the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth."

Then the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, "Amen! Praise the Lord!"

He who testifies to this says, "Yes, I am coming soon!" Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!