limit their role. This is one of the longest passages specifically about women in the entire New Testament. Further warnings against false teachers and exhortations to good behavior follow (6:3–21). The document contains no development of teaching about Christian faith or beliefs and no refuting of the false teachers, but it does include several short creedal statements (1:15; 2:5–6; 3:16; 6:14–16). There are two Greek words for “man”: anthrōpos
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