Female Ministers

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams. — read the full passage →

Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time. — read the full passage →

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →

I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae, — read the full passage →

Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the Kingdom of God. With him were the twelve, — read the full passage →

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the assembly.

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

This saying is faithful: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him. — read the full passage →

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.