Women Baptizing

Yea, I beseech thee also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

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.

Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. — read the full passage →

But we behold him who hath been made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for every man. — read the full passage →

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

Now this man had four virgin daughters, who prophesied.

The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

But Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:

gather the people, sanctify the assembly, assemble the old men, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.

And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess that believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →

until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.

And it came to pass on the way at the lodging-place, that Jehovah met him, and sought to kill him. — read the full passage →

Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work, — 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 →

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

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

in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; — read the full passage →

and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth. — read the full passage →

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

Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also have been in Christ before me.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

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 →

And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place. — read the full passage →

(although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples),

I indeed baptize you in water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire: — read the full passage →

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. — read the full passage →

And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. — read the full passage →

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou sofar from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? — read the full passage →

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it; — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not steal. — read the full passage →

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee. — read the full passage →

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions, — read the full passage →

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; — read the full passage →

For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. — read the full passage →

But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.

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

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.

I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreæ:

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, hath found according to the flesh? — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, calledto bean apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper country came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples: — read the full passage →

Now about that time Herod the king put forth his hands to afflict certain of the church. — read the full passage →

Now the apostles and the brethren that were in Judæa heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. — read the full passage →

And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.

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 →

While it remained, did it not remain thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thy power? How is it that thou hast conceived this thing in thy heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

but this is that which hath been spoken through the prophet Joel:

And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place. — read the full passage →

And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place.

And 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,

Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, — read the full passage →

And whosoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it were better for him if a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. — read the full passage →

And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth.

But Jesus said, Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for to such belongeth the kingdom of heaven.

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God; for he giveth you the former rain in just measure, and he causeth to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first month.

For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. — read the full passage →

and thou shalt swear, As Jehovah liveth, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, that were by the sea, heard how that Jehovah had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel. — read the full passage →

These are the statutes and the ordinances which ye shall observe to do in the land which Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath given thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him shalt thou serve; and to him shalt thou cleave, and by his name shalt thou swear.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

And 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 heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.