KJV King James Version
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Timothy 2:11
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.
WEB World English Bible
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
ASV American Standard Version
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,
Surrounding context — 1 Timothy 2
8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
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 deceived was in the transgression.
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1 Corinthians 14:34-35Let 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.Ephesians 5:22-24Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.1 Corinthians 11:3But 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.Colossians 3:18Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.1 Peter 3:5-6For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:Genesis 3:16Unto 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.Titus 2:5[To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.1 Peter 3:1Likewise, 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;Esther 1:20And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
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