Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same?
Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
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.
Yet in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.
I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
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