1 Corinthians 14:
34 .) Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
35 .) And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
1 Timothy 2:
8 .) I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
9 .) In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
10 .) But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
11 .) Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12 .) But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
1 Corinthians 11:
16 .) But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
Galatians 3:
23 .) But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 .) Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 .) But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26 .) For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 .) For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 .) There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 .) And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Excerpt from Article:
Female disciples[edit]
The Gospels acknowledge that women were among Jesus' earliest followers. Jewish women
disciples, including
Mary Magdalene,
Joanna, and
Susanna, had accompanied Jesus during his ministry and supported him out of their private means.[SUP]
[Lk. 8:1–3][/SUP] Although the details of these gospel stories may be questioned, in general they reflect the prominent historical roles women played in Jesus' ministry as disciples. There were women disciples at the foot of the cross. Women were reported to be the first
witnesses to the resurrection, chief among them again Mary Magdalene. She was not only "witness," but also called a "messenger" of the risen Christ.[SUP]
[2][/SUP]
From the beginning of the
Early Christian church, women were important members of the movement. As time went on, groups of Christians organized within the homes of believers. Those who could offer their home for meetings were considered important within the movement and assumed leadership roles.[SUP]
[3][/SUP] Such a woman was Lydia of Philippi, a wealthy dealer in purple cloth. After hearing Paul preach, she and her household were baptized.(Acts 16: 11-15)
The earliest Christian movement, most notably Paul’s movement, was very attractive for wealthy women and widows. They often opened their houses for worship by particular religious movements.[SUP]
[4][/SUP] According to Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, in the 1st century a woman's place was in the home and the otherwise private areas of life. Turning the private domestic setting into the public religious setting opened up opportunities for religious leadership. Pauline Christianity did not honour its rich patron; instead, it worked within a "motif of reciprocity"[SUP]
[4][/SUP] by offering leadership roles, dignity and status in return for patronage. Through building up their own house church, women could experience relative authority, social status and political power and renewed dignity within Paul's movement. This concept is reflected in Paul's relationship with Phoebe, Chloe and Rufus's mother.
Found here:
Paul the Apostle and women - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Acts 18:
24 .) And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
25 .) This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.
26 .) And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
John 4:
28 .) The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
29 .) Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
30 .) Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
31 .) In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
32 .) But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
33 .) Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
34 .) Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
35 .) Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
36 .) And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
37 .) And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
38 .) I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
39 .)
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
40 .) So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
41 .)
And many more believed because of his own word;
42 .) And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
43 .) Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
I am merely arguing the point that we should place Gods will over ours, and there was no word that women are allowed to be teachers, but we are taught that they should not.