1 Timothy 2:11
Good News Translation
Women should learn in silence and all humility.

New Revised Standard Version
Let a woman learn in silence with full submission.

Contemporary English Version
and they should learn by being quiet and paying attention.

New American Bible
A woman must receive instruction silently and under complete control.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

Genesis 3:16 To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

Esther 1:20 And let this be published through all the provinces of thy empire, (which is very wide,) and let all wives, as well of the greater as of the lesser, give honour to their husbands.

1 Corinthians 11:3 But 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.

1 Corinthians 14:34,35 Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak but to be subject, as also the law saith. . . .

Ephesians 5:22-24 Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord: . . .

Colossians 3:18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.

1 Peter 3:1,5,6 In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives, . . .

Context
Instructions to Women
10But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works. 11Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 12But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 14:34
Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak but to be subject, as also the law saith.

1 Timothy 2:10
But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

Titus 2:5
To be discreet, chaste, sober, having a care of the house, gentle, obedient to their husbands: that the word of God be not blasphemed.

1 Timothy 2:10
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