1 Timothy 2:11

Let the wife in quietude learn with all submission:

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

In Context

10but with good works, as becometh women who profess the fear of Aloha.

12for unto the wife to teach I permit not, neither to be authoritative over the husband, but to be in quietude.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 14:34LET your women in the church be silent; for it is not permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also saith the law.

Colossians 3:18WIVES, be subject to your husbands, as it is right in the Meshiha.

1 Peter 3:1So you also, wives, be subject to your own husbands, that them who have not obeyed the word, by your comely manners without labour you may win,

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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