Sexual Equality

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.

For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

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

The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a great company.

‘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.

Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares. — read the full passage →

As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. — read the full passage →

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.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew? — read the full passage →

His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.

As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Jesus summoned them, and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. — read the full passage →

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly that is in his house.

So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.

Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

Greet Mary, who labored much for us.

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 →

I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

They remembered his words, — read the full passage →

On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together. — read the full passage →

“Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent. — read the full passage →

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing; — read the full passage →

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. — read the full passage →

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit.

Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire. — read the full passage →

Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, “These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them. — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

They said, “We will call the young lady, and ask her.” — read the full passage →

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come. — read the full passage →

Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him.

In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

They said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. — read the full passage →

You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers. — read the full passage →

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness. — read the full passage →

The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth; — read the full passage →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — 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.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; — read the full passage →

Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions.

The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, — read the full passage →

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him. — read the full passage →

Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Jared.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.

For there is no partiality with God.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

“‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. — read the full passage →

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well. — read the full passage →

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,

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