Paul’s Recommendations for Women’s Spiritual Lives

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Paul’s Recommendations for Women’s Spiritual Lives
The section of the New Testament of the Bible called First Corinthians or 1 Corinthians is a letter written by the apostle Paul to the members of the church at Corinth during the first century of the Common Era. Paul helped to found the Corinthian Church and was away at the time that he wrote the letter to help the congregation with several problems that he had heard the church was facing. This book of the New Testament has been looked at closely in regard to Paul’s teachings about women’s place in the Church and in relationship with men. Several sections of the book deal explicitly with how women and men should act in church and at home in order to be the best Christian they can be. There...

..... their lives.
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