◄ 1 Timothy 2:12 ►
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Good News Translation
I do not allow them to teach or to have authority over men; they must keep quiet.

New Revised Standard Version
I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent.

Contemporary English Version
They should be silent and not be allowed to teach or to tell men what to do.

New American Bible
I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man. She must be quiet.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.

Context
Instructions to Women
…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. 13For Adam was first formed; then Eve.…
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.

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 2:11
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