Women Baptizing

and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names <FI>are<Fi> in the book of life.

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

Women--in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world; — read the full passage →

and him who was made some little less than messengers we see--Jesus--because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death. — read the full passage →

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

and this one had four daughters, virgins, prophesying.

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

And Jesus said, `Let her alone; why are ye giving her trouble? a good work she wrought on me;

And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth; — read the full passage →

having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

Gather the people, sanctify an assembly, Assemble the aged, Gather infants and sucklings of the breasts, Go out let a bridegroom from his inner chamber, And a bride out of her closet.

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

And he came to Derbe and Lystra, and lo, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus son of a certain woman, a believing Jewess, but of a father, a Greek, — read the full passage →

Till emptied out on us is the Spirit from on high, And a wilderness hath become a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned.

And it cometh to pass in the way, in a lodging place, that Jehovah meeteth him, and seeketh to put him to death; — read the full passage →

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready, — read the full passage →

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

in whom also ye were 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 the Christ, — read the full passage →

and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth. — read the full passage →

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — read the full passage →

salute Andronicus and Junias, my kindred, and my fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles, who also have been in Christ before me.

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

And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren--`If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;' — read the full passage →

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

(though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,)

`I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire, — read the full passage →

And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife. — read the full passage →

And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you. — read the full passage →

To the Overseer, on `The Hind of the Morning.' --A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring? — read the full passage →

`And this <FI>is<Fi> the command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it, — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not steal. — read the full passage →

`And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee; — read the full passage →

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →

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

For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands--age-during--in the heavens, — read the full passage →

And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, — read the full passage →

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

And I commend you to Phebe our sister--being a ministrant of the assembly that <FI>is<Fi> in Cenchrea--

What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh? — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, in Apollos' being in Corinth, Paul having gone through the upper parts, came to Ephesus, and having found certain disciples, — read the full passage →

And about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands, to do evil to certain of those of the assembly, — read the full passage →

And the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God, — read the full passage →

he commanded them also to be baptized in the name of the Lord; then they besought him to remain certain days.

And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration, — read the full passage →

while it remained, did it not remain thine? and having been sold, in thy authority was it not? why <FI>is<Fi> it that thou didst put in thy heart this thing? thou didst not lie to men, but to God;'

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

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place,

And there was Anna, a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, she was much advanced in days, having lived with an husband seven years from her virginity,

Seeing that many did take in hand to set in order a narration of the matters that have been fully assured among us, — read the full passage →

and whoever may cause to stumble one of the little ones believing in me, better is it for him if a millstone is hanged about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea. — read the full passage →

And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

And ye sons of Zion, joy and rejoice, In Jehovah your God, For He hath given to you the Teacher for righteousness, And causeth to come down to you a shower, Sprinkling and gathered--in the beginning.

For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I--even I, have required My flock, And I have sought it out. — read the full passage →

And thou hast sworn--Jehovah liveth, In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness, And blessed themselves in Him have nations, And in Him they boast themselves.

(For a day of vengeance <FI>is<Fi> to Jehovah, A year of recompences for Zion's strife,) — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass when all the kings of the Amorite which <FI>are<Fi> beyond the Jordan, towards the sea, and all the kings of the Canaanite which <FI>are<Fi> by the sea, hear how that Jehovah hath dried up the waters of the Jordan at the presence of the sons of Israel till their passing over, that their heart is melted, and there hath not been in them any more spirit because of the presence of the sons of Israel. — read the full passage →

`These <FI>are<Fi> the statutes and the judgments which ye observe to do in the land which Jehovah, God of thy fathers, hath given to thee to possess it, all the days that ye are living on the ground: — read the full passage →

`Jehovah thy God thou dost fear, Him thou dost serve, and to Him thou dost cleave, and by His name thou dost swear.

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'