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(N). Matthew 10:31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

History tells us an interesting thing about when Timothy received this letter from Paul. In Ephesus their were two ladies who were leading out in a women's superiority movement. And not merely female superiority, but UNEDUCATED female superiority. They saw educated women as inferior an any man. They said the uneducated women were superior to men and educated women in all ways, and discouraged marriage. They would go to any public gathering, religious and secular and just take over the meetings and force the men, especially the leaders to submit to their authority. Everything that Paul wrote here are issues that we find directly related to the points that this movement was pushing and trying to force upon the population of beginning with Ephesus. As we look at Acts, we find that when Paul and his team came and started a church, he would leave it in the hands of the best people to continue it's ministry and growth, whether it be man or often it was left in the care of the cities leading (educated) women. Did Paul not practice what he preached? Or are there other ways of understanding his quotes that superficially sound like he did not practice what he preached about women leaders. Now we do find Paul focusing on the difference in leadership between educated people, and uneducated who wanted to share their lack of education. Paul also wanted services to be orderly. Thus this movement in Ephesus which pushed for the superiority of uneducated women, and history tells us how they would disrupt meeting in many of the pagan temples and public gatherings, both which would have really rubbed Paul the wrong way.