Women in Ministry

Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.”

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.”

Then afterward I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled disgraces her head — it is one and the same thing as having her head shaved.

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

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

For Adam was formed first, then Eve;

Women likewise must be serious, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.

someone who is blameless, married only once, whose children are believers, not accused of debauchery and not rebellious.