Women Baptizing

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.

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.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

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. — read the full passage →

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

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

Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room.

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

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

Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him. — read the full passage →

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, — read the full passage →

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

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

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

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

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth. — read the full passage →

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — 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.

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

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

(although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you 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 have you forsaken me? Why are you so far 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 Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; — read the full passage →

“You shall not steal. — read the full passage →

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

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

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created 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 compassion, — read the full passage →

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

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is 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 to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you 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 to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,

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

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

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, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly. — read the full passage →

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

He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. — read the full passage →

While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

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,

Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, — read the full passage →

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck. — read the full passage →

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.

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

and you shall swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.”

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

When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had passed over, 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 you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth. — read the full passage →

You shall fear Yahweh your God; you shall serve him; and you shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

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.”