1 Timothy 2:8-15

Contemporary English Version

⁸I want everyone everywhere to lift innocent hands toward heaven and pray, without being angry or arguing with each other.

⁹^(A) I would like for women to wear modest and sensible clothes. They should not have fancy hairdos, or wear expensive clothes, or put on jewelry made of gold or pearls. ¹⁰Women who claim to love God should do helpful things for others, ¹¹and they should learn by being quiet and paying attention. ¹²They should be silent and not be allowed to teach or to tell men what to do. ¹³^(B) After all, Adam was created before Eve, ¹⁴^(C) and the man Adam wasn't the one who was fooled. It was the woman Eve who was completely fooled and sinned. ¹⁵But women will be saved by having children,^[a] if they stay faithful, loving, holy, and modest.

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2.15 saved by having children: Or “brought safely through childbirth” or “saved by the birth of a child” (that is, by the birth of Jesus) or “saved by being good mothers.”