Women in Church

To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the husband is the head of his wife, and God is the head of Christ.

Indeed, man was not made from woman, but woman from man.

women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as the law also says.

Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord.

I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent.

Yet she will be saved through childbearing, provided they continue in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.

Now a bishop must be above reproach, married only once, temperate, sensible, respectable, hospitable, an apt teacher,

so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,