“The women should keep quiet in the churches, for they are
not authorized to speak, but should take a secondary and subordinate place, just
as the Law also says. But if there is anything they want to learn, they should ask
their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to talk in church
[for her to usurp and exercise authority over men in the church].” (1
Corinthians 14:34, 35) (Amplified Bible)
“…you married women, be submissive to your own husbands
[subordinate yourselves as being secondary to and dependent on them, and adapt
yourselves to them], so that even if any do not obey the Word [of God], they
may be won over not by discussion but by the [godly] lives of their wives.
When they observe the pure and modest way in which you
conduct yourselves, together with your reverence [for your husband; you are to
feel for him all that reverence includes: to respect, defer to, revere him—to honor,
esteem, appreciate, prize and, in the human sense, to adore him, that is, to
admire, praise, be devoted to, deeply love, and enjoy your husband].
Let not yours be the [merely] external adorning with
[elaborate] interweaving and knotting of the hair, the wearing of jewelry, or
changes of clothes;
But let it be the inward adorning and beauty of the hidden
person of the heart, with the incorruptible and unfading charm of a gentle and
peaceful spirit, which [is not anxious or wrought up, but] is very precious in
the sight of God.
For it was thus that the pious women of old who hoped in God
were [accustomed] to beautify themselves and were submissive to their husbands
[adapting themselves to them as themselves secondary and dependent upon them].
It was thus that Sarah obeyed Abraham [following his
guidance and acknowledging his headship over her by] calling him lord (master,
leader, authority). And you are now her true daughters if you do right and let
nothing terrify you [not giving way to hysterical fears of letting anxieties
unnerve you].
In the same way you married men should live considerately
with [your wives], with an intelligent recognition [of the marriage relation],
honoring the woman as [physically] the weaker, but [realizing that you] are
joint heirs of the grace (God’s unmerited favor) of life, in order that you
prayers may not be hindered and cut off. [Otherwise you cannot pray
effectively.]” (1 Peter 3:1-7) (Amplified Bible)
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto
the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head
of the church: and he is the savior of the body. Therefore as the church is
subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
(Ephesians 5:22-24) (The Holy Bible, King James Version)
“BE Ye followers
of me, even as I also am of Christ. Now I praise you, brethren, that ye
remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
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.
Every man praying
or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
But every woman
that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for
that is even all one as if she were shaven.
For if the woman
be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be
shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
For a man indeed
ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but
the woman is the glory of the man.
For the man is
not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
Neither was the
man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
For this cause
ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
Nevertheless
neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the
Lord.
For as the woman is
of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
Judge in
yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
Doth not even
nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
But if a woman
have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
But if any man
seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.” (1
Corinthians 11:1-16; The Holy Bible, King James Version)
