Can women be preachers and teach men? YES.

Acts 2:18
[18] Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

Acts 18:24,26
[24] Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. [26] He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately.

Examples NT:
• Junia (Apostle – Rom 16:7)
• Priscilla (Teacher/Pastor – Acts 18:26, Rom 16:3-5, 1 Cor 16:19)
• Nympha (Pastor – Col 4:15)
• Phoebe (Deacon – Rom 16:1-2)
• Anna (Prophetess - Luke 2:36-38)
• Phillip’s Daughters (Prophetesses – Acts 21:8-9)
• Mary & Women (First Preachers of the Gospel & Resurrection to men – John 20:11-18, Luke 24:9-11, Matt 28:5-7, Mark 16)
• Samaritan Woman (Evangelist – John 4:39)
• Euodia & Syntyche (Ministers – Phil. 4:2-3)

1 Tim 2:11-15 is to be translated “wife / wives” in order to be consistent with Scripture.

The strongest argument for the word γυνὴ (gynē) being translated "wife" is that ONLY WIVES have children; this passage is not advocating for women to run out and get pregnant at random, but to bear children in marriage.

1 Tim 5:14
"So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander."

Malachi 2:15
[15] Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

1 Cor 14 is also dealing with wives, “If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home;” (1 Cor 14:35). Paul is dealing with orderly worship (1 Cor 14:40). Wives calling across the aisle to husbands would disrupt service.

As long as it’s orderly “… you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged” (1 Cor 14:31). God bless you!

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