1 Timothy 2:11
Let a woman learn in silence with all subjection.
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In The King James Version
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
In Context
10but in a manner proper for women who are professing piety by means of good works.
12For I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to be in authority over a man, but to be in silence.
Cross References
Esther 1:20And let this be published in all the provinces of your empire, (which is very wide,) and let all wives, the greater as much as the lesser, give honor to their husbands.”
1 Corinthians 14:34Women should be silent in the churches. For it is not permitted for them to speak; but instead, they should be subordinate, as the law also says.
Colossians 3:18Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord.
1 Peter 3:1Similarly also, wives should be subject to their husbands, so that, even if some do not believe the Word, they may benefit without the Word, through the behavior of these wives,
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 2:10-15
Paul's Charge to Females. ( a. d. 64.) 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. 11 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. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being… Read the whole commentary →