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Women: Religious Privileges of, Among Early Christians

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Acts 1:14 With one accord they all continued in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
Acts 12:12, 13 And when he had realized this, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered together and were praying. / He knocked at the outer gate, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it.
1 Corinthians 11:5 And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved.
1 Corinthians 14:34 Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.
1 Timothy 2:11 A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.