[Gospel Minutes. 51.12 (2002): 4.] An elder here has said that, according to 1 Tim. 5:14, the Christian woman is not to work outside the home. This bothers me greatly, for I work at a job and bring in a pay check, and we really need that to live. I want to do what is right. So, is there Bible authority for a woman to leave the home and work at a secular job? The passage in question reads: “I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling” (1 Timothy 5:14). This correlates with Titus 2:3-5, “That the aged women … train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.” These passages surely show that the primary work of the wife is to be a “homemaker.” But does this mean that it is wrong for her to work outside the home? “After these things he [Paul] departed from Athens, and came to Corinth. And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome: and he came unto them; and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought, for by their trade they were