⁸ Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law also say the same?

⁸ Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.

¹³ We also constantly give thanks to God for this, that when you received the word of God that you heard from us you accepted it not as a human word but as what it really is, God’s word, which is also at work in you believers.^(A)

³⁴ Women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak but should be subordinate, as the law also says.^(A)

⁴⁰ But in my opinion she is more blessed if she remains as she is. And I think that I, too, have the Spirit of God.

¹⁹ I am speaking in human terms because of your limitations.^[a] For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, leading to even more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.^(A)

³¹ Do we then overthrow the law through this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

²⁰ for teaching and for instruction?” surely those who speak like this will have no dawn!^(A)