A moment in scripture
1 Timothy 2:11
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Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
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The surrounding passage
- 1 Timothy 2:9
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
- 1 Timothy 2:10
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
- 1 Timothy 2:12
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
- 1 Timothy 2:13
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.