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6. “Iron sharpens iron, as one person sharpens another.” — Proverbs 27:17 7. “So now faith, hope and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” — 1 Corinthians 13:13
Priscilla illustration from the Women of the Bible, Harold Copping. Priscilla was a woman of Jewish heritage and one of the earliest known Christian converts who lived in Rome. Her name is a Roman diminutive for Prisca which was her formal name. She is often thought to have been the first example of a female preacher or teacher in early church ...
In Titus 2:3-5, Paul teaches that, as older men must be "temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, love, and endurance," so older women must behave reverently, refrain from slander and alcoholism, and teach "what is good" to younger women. He also says that younger women must love their families and be "self-controlled, chaste ...
No one can make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil." [28] On First Corinthians 7:1 he reasons, "It is good, he says, for a man not to touch a woman. If it is good not to touch a woman, it is bad to touch one: for there is no opposite to goodness but badness.
The responsibility of parents to prepare their children for marriage in all respects, and for youths to be prepared in terms of talents, education, vocation and finances prior to seeking a courtship relationship. The mentoring role of parents or other suitable "accountability couples" in a given courtship.
Fighting is pretty much inevitable in any romantic relationship and is the focus of a new book by Julie Schwartz Gottman, Ph.D., and her husband, John Gottman, Ph.D., "Fight Right: How Successful ...
New Testament scholar Craig Blomberg and other complementarians assert three primary texts in the New Testament that are essential to understanding what is generally seen as the traditional view of women and women's roles: "1 Corinthians 14:34–35, where women are commanded to be silent in the church; 1 Timothy 2:11–15 where women (according ...
The New York Times, for example, featured an interview with Father James Martin, a well-known progressive priest, alongside a photo of him blessing a gay couple who are friends of his (in his ...