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1 Timothy 2:11

9 Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

10 but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.

A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.

12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; she is to remain quiet.

13 For Adam was formed first, and then Eve.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.
KJV
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
WEB
Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.
ASV
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
DARBY
Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection;
BLB
Let a woman learn in quietness, in all submission.
ÅB
En kvinne skal la seg lære i stillhet, med all lydighet;
OTB
En kvinne skal lære i stillhet og med full respekt.
B1930
En kvinne skal la sig lære i stillhet, med all lydighet;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Corinthians 14:34–35

    Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.

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  • Ephesians 5:22–24

    Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

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  • 1 Corinthians 11:3

    But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

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  • Colossians 3:18

    Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

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  • 1 Peter 3:5–6

    For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands,

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  • Genesis 3:16

    To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

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  • Titus 2:5

    to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.

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  • 1 Peter 3:1

    Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives

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