So the king's recorders were called in the first month, on the thirteenth [day], and they wrote as Haman commanded to the captains and governors in every province, from India even to Ethiopia, to a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, and to the rulers of the nations according to their [many] languages, in the name of King Artaxerxes.

So the scribes were called in the first month, which is Nisan, on the twenty-third day of the same year. And [orders] were written concerning the Jews, whatever [the king had] commanded to the local governors and chiefs of the satraps, from India even to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven satraps, according to the several provinces, according to their dialects.

Therefore I publish a decree: Every people, tribe, [or] language that shall speak reproachfully against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, [and] Abed-Nego shall be destroyed, and their houses shall be plundered, because there is no other God who shall be able to deliver thus.

King Nebuchadnezzar, to all nations, tribes, and tongues that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.

Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

But just as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

And I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to have authority over a man, but to be in silence.

so that they may urge the young women to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,

temperate, pure, homemakers, good, submitting to their own husbands, lest the word of God be blasphemed.

So the king's recorders were called in the first month, on the thirteenth [day], and they wrote as Haman commanded to the captains and governors in every province, from India even to Ethiopia, to a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, and to the rulers of the nations according to their [many] languages, in the name of King Artaxerxes.

So the master praised the unrighteous manager because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of light.

And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation of those under heaven.

And they were all amazed and were marveling, saying to one another, "Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

Cretans and Arabs--we hear them speaking in our own tongues the mighty [deeds] of God."

but in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, in order that I may instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue.

Brothers, do not be children in your understanding; rather, in malice be children, but in understanding be men.