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But if there is no one to interpret, let them be silent in church and speak to themselves and to God.

If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

The churches of Asia send greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, greet you warmly in the Lord.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is in Corinth, including all the saints throughout Achaia:

You have heard, no doubt, of my earlier life in Judaism. I was violently persecuting the church of God and was trying to destroy it.

And he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church,

so that through the church the wisdom of God in its rich variety might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.

to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior.

Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

so as to present the church to himself in splendor, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind—yes, so that she may be holy and without blemish.

For no one ever hates his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the church.

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

You Philippians indeed know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you alone.

He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters in Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.