"For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope."

"For the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none."

"For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. For their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were co…"

"But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called us to peace."

"I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet."