Bible verses about "deaconess" | Coverdale

² But a Bisshoppe must be blamelesse, the hussbade of one wife, sober, discrete, manerly, harberous, apte to teach:

¹ Paul and Timotheus the seruauntes of Iesu Christ. Vnto all the sayntes in Iesu Christ, which are at Philippos, with the Bisshoppes and mynisters.

³ But I certifye you, that Christ is the heade of euery man. As for ye man, he is the heade of ye woman, but God is Christes heade. ⁴ Euery man that prayeth or prophecieth, and hath eny thinge on his heade, shameth his heade. ⁵ But euery woman that prayeth or prophecieth with vncouered heade, dishonesteth hir heade. For it is euen a lyke moch as yf she were shauen. ⁶ Yf the woma be not couered, let hir heer also be cut of. But yf it be vncomely for a woman to haue hir heer cut of or to be shauen, then let hir couer hir heade. ⁷ Neuertheles the man oughte not to couer his heade, for so moch as he is the ymage and glory of God: but the woma is the glory of the man. ⁸ For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. ⁹ Nether was the man created for the womans sake, but the woma for the mans sake. ¹⁰ Therfore ought the woman to haue a power vpon hir heade, for the angels sakes. ¹¹ Neuertheles nether is the man without ye woman, nether the woman without the ma in the LORDE. ¹² For as the woman is of the man, euen so commeth the man also by the woman, but all of God. ¹³ Iudge ye by yor selues, whether it be comly, yt a woma praye before God bare headed? ¹⁴ Or doth not nature teach you, yt it is a shame for a man ¹⁵ yf he weere loge heer, & a prayse to ye woma, yf she weere loge heer? For hir heer is geue heer to couer her withall. ¹⁶ But yf there be eny man amoge you that hath lust to stryue, let him knowe, that we haue no soch custome, nether the congregacions of God.

¹¹ Let the woman lerne in sylece with all subieccion. ¹² I suffre not a woma to teach ner to haue auctorite ouer the man, but for to be in sylence.

⁸ Likewyse must the mynisters be honest, not double tonged, not geuen to moch wyne, nether vnto fylthie lucre, ⁹ but hauynge the mystery of faith in pure conscience. ¹⁰ And let them first be proued, and then let them mynister, yf they be blamelesse. ¹¹ Euen so must their wyues be honest, not euell speakers, but sober and faithfull in all thinges. ¹² Let the mynisters be, euery one the hussbade of one wyfe, and soch as rule their children well, and their owne housholdes. ¹³ For they that mynister well, get them selues a good degree and greate libertye in the faith which is in Christ Iesu.

⁹ Likewyse also the wemen, that they araye them selues in comly apparell with shamfastnes and discrete behaueor, not with broyded heer, or golde, or perles, or costly araye:

³ Yee and I beseke the my faithfull yock felowe, helpe the wemen, which haue laboured with me in the Gospell, with Clement & with my other helpers, whose names are in the boke of life.

³ And the elder wemen likewyse that they shewe them selues as it becommeth holynes, that they be no false accusers, not geuen to moch wyne, that they teach honest thinges, ⁴ that they enfourme the yonge wemen to be sober mynded, to loue their hussbandes, to loue their childre, ⁵ to be discrete, chaste, husswyfly, good, obedient vnto their awne hussbandes, that the worde of God be not euell spoken of.

²⁶ The same beganne to speake boldly in the synagoge. Whan Aquila and Priscilla herde him, they toke him vnto the, and expounded the waye of God vnto him more perfectly.

¹² Let the mynisters be, euery one the hussbade of one wyfe, and soch as rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.

⁸ Likewyse must the mynisters be honest, not double tonged, not geuen to moch wyne, nether vnto fylthie lucre,

² that ye receaue her in the LORDE, as it be cometh the sayntes, and that ye helpe her in whatsoeuer busynesse she hath neade off you. For she hath succoured many, and myne awne selfe also. ³ Grete Prisca and Aquila my helpers in Christ Iesu,

¹² I suffre not a woma to teach ner to haue auctorite ouer the man, but for to be in sylence.

¹⁰ and well reported of in good workes, yf she haue brought vp children well, yf she haue bene harberous, yf she haue wasshed the sayntes fete, yf she haue mynistred vnto the which were in aduersite, yf she were continually geuen to all maner of good workes.

¹ I commende vnto you Phebe oure sister, which is a mynister of the congregacion of Cenchrea, ² that ye receaue her in the LORDE, as it be cometh the sayntes, and that ye helpe her in whatsoeuer busynesse she hath neade off you. For she hath succoured many, and myne awne selfe also.

¹¹ Euen so must their wyues be honest, not euell speakers, but sober and faithfull in all thinges.

¹ I commende vnto you Phebe oure sister, which is a mynister of the congregacion of Cenchrea,