Women Pastors?

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Women Pastors 1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 57 helpful votes I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 51 helpful votes The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.1 Timothy 3:1-13 ESV / 42 helpful votes The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? …Titus 1:6-9 ESV / 41 helpful votes If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 39 helpful votes Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.Galatians 3:28 ESV / 34 helpful votes There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 29 helpful votes Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.Romans 16:1 ESV / 29 helpful votes I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,Acts 2:17 ESV / 28 helpful votes “‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;Exodus 15:20 ESV / 28 helpful votes Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ESV / 27 helpful votes The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.1 Corinthians 12:11 ESV / 27 helpful votes All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.1 Timothy 2:13 ESV / 26 helpful votes For Adam was formed first, then Eve;Romans 16:1-4 ESV / 26 helpful votes I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well. Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.Acts 18:26 ESV / 26 helpful votes He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him and explained to him the way of God more accurately.1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.Acts 18:24-26 ESV / 25 helpful votes Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, competent in the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him and explained to him the way of God more accurately.1 Timothy 2:11 ESV / 23 helpful votes Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 23 helpful votes Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave

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