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#152 - Can women lead in church? Why does 1 Timothy tell women to ’be silent’?

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Is It Biblical for a Woman to Lead a Congregation of Men and Women?

In Paul for everyone the pastoral epistles there's a chunk on it there and those overlap inevitably. In verses eight and nine and ten Paul is saying men must lift up holy hands without getting angry and having arguments. Women don't think that your life is defined by having an elaborate hairdo or by having jewelry, he says. The idea the word manthanetto let her learn is the same route from which we get mafete's disciple and hisu kia.

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