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Instructions to Women

1 Timothy 2:11

In 9 translations

BSB
A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.Or wife; also in verse 12
KJV
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
WEB
Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.
ASV
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
LSV
Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection,
YLT
Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,
DBY
Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection;
DRC
Let the woman learn in silence, with all subjection.
GNV
Let the woman learne in silence with all subiection.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
γυνὴ ἐν ἡσυχίᾳ μανθανέτω ἐν πάσῃ ὑποταγῇ·
RP2018
Γυνὴ ἐν ἡσυχίᾳ μανθανέτω ἐν πάσῃ ὑποταγῇ.
TR-Boyd
Γυνὴ ἐν ἡσυχίᾳ μανθανέτω ἐν πάσῃ ὑποταγῇ.
SCR1894
γυνη εν ησυχια μανθανετω εν παση υποταγη

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Corinthians 14:34–35Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. If they wish to inquire about something, they are to ask their own husbands at home; for it is…
  • Ephesians 5:22–24Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should…
  • 1 Corinthians 11:3But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
  • Colossians 3:18Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
  • 1 Peter 3:5–6For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands, just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. And you are her children if you do what…
  • 1 Peter 3:1Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives
  • Titus 2:5to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.
  • Genesis 3:16To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
  • Esther 1:20The edict the king issues will be heard throughout his vast kingdom—and so all women, from the least to the greatest, will honor their husbands.”

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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