⁸ Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands^(A) without anger or disputing. ⁹ I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,^{(B) 10} but with good deeds,^(C) appropriate for women who profess to worship God.

¹¹ A woman^[a] should learn in quietness and full submission.^{(D) 12} I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;^[b] she must be quiet.^{(E) 13} For Adam was formed first, then Eve.^{(F) 14} And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.^{(G) 15} But women^[c] will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love^(H) and holiness with propriety.

God’s Covenant With Noah

9 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.^{(A) 2} The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.^{(B) 3} Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you.^(C) Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.^(D)

⁴ “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.^(E)