1 Corinthians
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1 Corinthians: Women

  1. Paul would prefer that no one marry. but he says "to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife." 7:1-2

  2. "Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife." 7:27

  3. Paul says "the head of the woman is the man," meaning that the women are to be subordinate to men. 11:3

  4. If a woman refuses to cover her head in church, then her her head must be shaved. 11:5-6

  5. Men are made in the image of God; women in the image of men. Women were created from and for men. 11:7-9

  6. Every women should have power on her head because of the angels. 11:10

  7. Women are commanded by Paul to be silent in church and to be obedient to men. He further says that "if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in church." 14:34-35