1 Timothy 2:11

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.”

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BSBPD

“A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Timothy 2:11 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.”
  2. 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.”
  3. 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.
  4. 1 Corinthians 14:34Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.
  5. Ephesians 5:22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
  6. Colossians 3:18Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. 1 Peter 3:5For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands,

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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