1 Timothy 2:11
Women should learn quietly, respecting their place.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
In Context
10but by the good things they do—as is appropriate for women who claim to follow God.
12I don't allow women to be instructors, or to dominate men; let them remain quiet.
Cross References
Esther 1:20When Your Majesty's decree is proclaimed throughout your vast empire, all wives will respect their husbands, highborn or lowborn.”
1 Corinthians 14:34“Women should stay quiet in the churches—they shouldn't speak. They should respect their situation, as the laws states.
Colossians 3:18You married women, respect your husbands appropriately in the Lord.
1 Peter 3:1Wives, accept your husbands' authority in the same way, so that if some husbands refuse to accept the Word, they may still be won over without words by the way you behave,
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 →