The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. You observe days and months and seasons and years. I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain. So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.
Women can be preachers and teachers and hold church offices, just like men.
And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord. The Bible is too hard for the average person to understand.