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or if there is no interpreter, let the man with the gift be silent in the Church, speaking to himself and to God.

and if they wish to ask questions, they should ask their own husbands at home. For it is disgraceful for a married woman to speak at a Church assembly.

For I am the least of the Apostles, and am not fit to be called an Apostle--because I persecuted the Church of God.

The Churches in the province of Asia send you greetings; and Aquila and Prisca, in hearty Christian love, do the same, together with the Church which meets at their house.

Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God--and our brother Timothy: To the Church of God in Corinth, with all God's people throughout Greece.

while we hold ourselves in readiness to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as ever you as a Church have fully shown your obedience.

For you have heard of my early career in Judaism--how I furiously persecuted the Church of God, and made havoc of it;

I went up in obedience to a revelation of God's will; and I explained to them the Good News which I proclaim among the Gentiles. To the leaders of the Church this explanation was made in private, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

Yet there was danger of this through the false brethren secretly introduced into the Church, who had stolen in to spy out the freedom which is ours in Christ Jesus, in order to rob us of it.

and when they perceived the mission which was graciously entrusted to me, they (that is to say, James, Peter, and John, who were considered to be the pillars of the Church) welcomed Barnabas and me to their fellowship on the understanding that we were to go to the Gentiles and they to the Jews.

God has put all things under His feet, and has appointed Him universal and supreme Head of the Church, which is His Body,

concealed in order that the Church might now be used to display to the powers and authorities in the heavenly realms the innumerable aspects of God's wisdom.

to Him be the glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, world without end! Amen.

because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body.

And just as the Church submits to Christ, so also married women should be entirely submissive to their husbands.

Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;

that He might present the Church to Himself a glorious bride, without spot or wrinkle or any other defect, but to be holy and unblemished.

For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church;

That is a great truth hitherto kept secret: I mean the truth concerning Christ and the Church.

Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Christ Jesus: To all God's people in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the ministers of the Church and their assistants.