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1 Timothy 2:11

9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

13 For Adam was first formed, 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

    Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

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  • Ephesians 5:22–24

    Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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  • 1 Corinthians 11:3

    But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

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  • Colossians 3:18

    Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

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  • 1 Peter 3:5–6

    For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

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  • Genesis 3:16

    Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

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  • Titus 2:5

    To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

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  • 1 Peter 3:1

    Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

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