11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

12 (A)I permit not a woman to teach, [a]neither to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

13 [b]For (B)Adam was first formed, then Eve.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 2:12 The first argument, why it is not lawful for women to teach in the Congregation, because by this means they should be placed above men, for they should be their masters: which is against God’s ordinance.
  2. 1 Timothy 2:13 He proveth this ordinance of God, whereby the woman is subject to man, first by that, that God made the woman after man, for man’s sake.

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