mean wife
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11Let a woman learn in silence with all subjection. 12For I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to be in authority over a man, but to be in silence.
33Yet truly, each and every one of you should love his wife as himself. And a wife should fear her husband.
22Wives should be submissive to their husbands, as to the Lord.
7Similarly, you husbands should live with them in accord with knowledge, bestowing honor on the female as the weaker vessel and as co-heirs of the life of grace, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
3So I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ. But the head of woman is man. Yet truly, the head of Christ is God.
24Therefore, just as the Church is subject to Christ, so also should wives be subject to their husbands in all things.
12For I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to be in authority over a man, but to be in silence.
1And so I beg you, first of all, to make supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings for all men, 2for kings, and for all who are in high places, so that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and chastity. 3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4who wants all men to be saved and to arrive at an acknowledgment of the truth. 5For there is one God, and one mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus, 6who gave himself as a redemption for all, as a testimony in its proper time.
34Women should be silent in the churches. For it is not permitted for them to speak; but instead, they should be subordinate, as the law also says. 35And if they want to learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.
34Women should be silent in the churches. For it is not permitted for them to speak; but instead, they should be subordinate, as the law also says.
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her,
23For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the Church. He is the Savior of his body.
28There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither servant nor free; there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.