KJV King James Version
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
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1 Timothy 2:13
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For Adam was formed first, and then Eve.
WEB World English Bible
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
ASV American Standard Version
For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for Adam was first formed, then Eve,
Surrounding context — 1 Timothy 2
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.
15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
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1 Corinthians 11:8-9For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.Genesis 2:18And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.Genesis 1:27So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.Genesis 2:22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.Genesis 2:7And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
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