the purpose of the woman
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18The Lord God also said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let us make a helper for him similar to himself.”
3Old women, similarly, should be in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well, 4so that they may teach prudence to the young women, so that they may love their husbands, love their children,
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.
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.
15Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to take pity on the child of her womb? But even if she would forget, still I shall never forget you.
16To the woman, he also said: “I will multiply your labors and your conceptions. In pain shall you give birth to sons, and you shall be under your husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over you.”
5calling to mind the same faith, which is in you unfeigned, which also first dwelt in your grandmother, Lois, and in your mother, Eunice, and also, I am certain, in you.
1Be imitators of me, as I also am of Christ. 2Now I praise you, brothers, because you are mindful of me in everything, in such a way as to hold to my precepts as I have handed them down to you. 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. 4Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered disgraces his head. 5But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered disgraces her head. For it is the same as if her head were shaven. 6So if a woman is not veiled, let her hair be cut off. Truly then, if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off, or to have her head shaven, then she should cover her head.
7Certainly, a man ought not to cover his head, for he is the image and glory of God. But woman is the glory of man. 8For man is not of woman, but woman is of man. 9And indeed, man was not created for woman, but woman was created for man.
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.
26She has opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is on her tongue.
23And Adam said: “Now this is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh. This one shall be called woman, because she was taken from man.”