Male Spiritual Leadership

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing. — read the full passage →

Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

for there is no respect of persons with God.

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers.

to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, — read the full passage →

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness: — read the full passage →

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

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

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

Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritualgifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.

And on the morrow we departed, and came unto Cæsarea: and entering into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we abode with him. — read the full passage →

And certain men came down from Judæa and taught the brethren, saying, Except ye be circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved. — read the full passage →

Nowthere wasa certain man in Cæsarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, — read the full passage →

Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. — read the full passage →

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

that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

For Adam was first formed, then Eve;

But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness. — read the full passage →

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

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

And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church.

let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.