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1 Timothy 2:12

I suffre not a woman to teache nether to have auctoricie over a man: but forto be in silence.

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11Let the woman learne in silence with all subieccion.

13For Adam was fyrst formed and then Eve.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 14:34Let youre wyves kepe silence in the congregacions. For it is not permitted vnto them to speake: but let them be vnder obedience as sayth the lawe.

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 →

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