sexism
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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.
12For just as woman came into existence from man, so also does man exist through woman. But all things are from God.
26For you are all sons of God, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus. 27For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ have become clothed with Christ. 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.
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. 13For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14And Adam was not seduced, but the woman, having been seduced, was in transgression.
27And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.
14I will not send afflictions on your daughters, when they will commit fornication, nor on your spouses, when they will commit adultery, because you yourselves have associated with harlots and have offered sacrifice with the effeminate, and because the people who do not understand will be defeated.
17‘And this shall be: in the last days, says the Lord, I will pour out, from my Spirit, upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. And your youths shall see visions, and your elders shall dream dreams.
4Now there was a prophetess, Deborah, the wife of Lappidoth, who judged the people in that time.
26And so, he began to act faithfully in the synagogue. And when Priscilla and Aquila had heard him, they took him aside and expounded the Way of the Lord to him more thoroughly.
8And they called to mind his words. 9And returning from the tomb, they reported all these things to the eleven, and to all the others. 10Now it was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary of James, and the other women who were with them, who told these things to the Apostles. 11But these words seemed to them a delusion. And so they did not believe them.
21Be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.
9And indeed, man was not created for woman, but woman was created for man.
11Yet truly, man would not exist without woman, nor would woman exist without man, in the Lord. 12For just as woman came into existence from man, so also does man exist through woman. But all things are from God.
9But he, rising early on the first Sabbath, appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
12The Lord will give the word to evangelizers, along with great virtue.
42But Jesus, calling them, said to them: “You know that those who seem to be leaders among the Gentiles dominate them, and their leaders exercise authority over them. 43But it is not to be this way among you. Instead, whoever would become greater shall be your minister; 44and whoever will be first among you shall be the servant of all. 45So, too, the Son of man has not come so that they would minister to him, but so that he would minister and would give his life as a redemption for many.”
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.