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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

1 Timothy 2:11

A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Minister, Christian;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Woman;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Men;   Women;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Woman;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Genesis, Theology of;   Sexuality, Human;   Timothy, First and Second, Theology of;   Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Christianity;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Woman;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Birth;   Euodias;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Adam and Eve;   Marriage;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Titus, Epistle to;   Woman;   1 Timothy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Obedience;   Quotations;   Salutations;   Soberness Sobriety;   Timothy and Titus Epistles to;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Woman;   34 Meekness Quietness;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Silence;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A woman is to learn quietly with full submission.
King James Version (1611)
Let the woman learne in silence with all subiection:
King James Version
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
English Standard Version
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.
New American Standard Bible
A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness.
New Century Version
Let a woman learn by listening quietly and being ready to cooperate in everything.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness.
Legacy Standard Bible
A woman must learn in quietness, in all submission.
Contemporary English Version
and they should learn by being quiet and paying attention.
Complete Jewish Bible
Let a woman learn in peace, fully submitted;
Darby Translation
Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection;
Easy-to-Read Version
A woman should learn while listening quietly and being completely willing to obey.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Let the woman learne in silence with all subiection.
George Lamsa Translation
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Good News Translation
Women should learn in silence and all humility.
Lexham English Bible
A woman must learn in quietness with all submission.
Literal Translation
Let a woman learn in silence, in all subjection.
Amplified Bible
A woman must quietly receive instruction with all submissiveness.
American Standard Version
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
Bible in Basic English
Let a woman quietly take the place of a learner and be under authority.
Hebrew Names Version
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
International Standard Version
A woman must learn quietly with full submission.
Etheridge Translation
Let the wife in quietude learn with all submission:
Murdock Translation
Let a woman learn in silence, with all submission:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let the woman learne in scilence in all subiection.
English Revised Version
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
World English Bible
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Let a woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Weymouth's New Testament
A woman should quietly learn from others with entire submissiveness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A womman lerne in silence, with al subieccioun.
Update Bible Version
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
Webster's Bible Translation
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
New English Translation
A woman must learn quietly with all submissiveness.
New King James Version
Let a woman learn in silence with all submission.
New Living Translation
Women should learn quietly and submissively.
New Life Bible
Women should be quiet when they learn. They should listen to what men have to say.
New Revised Standard
Let a woman learn in silence with full submission.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let, a woman, in quietness, be learning in all submission;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Revised Standard Version
Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Let the woman learne in silence with all subieccion.
Young's Literal Translation
Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let the woman lerne in sylece with all subieccion.
Mace New Testament (1729)
Let the women with submissive silence attend to instruction.
THE MESSAGE
I don't let women take over and tell the men what to do. They should study to be quiet and obedient along with everyone else. Adam was made first, then Eve; woman was deceived first—our pioneer in sin!—with Adam right on her heels. On the other hand, her childbearing brought about salvation, reversing Eve. But this salvation only comes to those who continue in faith, love, and holiness, gathering it all into maturity. You can depend on this.
Simplified Cowboy Version
A real lady doesn't go around bossing people around. Instead of trying to prove herself to men, she should prove her devotion to God.

Contextual Overview

9Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, 10but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God. 11A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.12I do not permit a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man; she is to remain quiet. 13For Adam was formed first, and then Eve. 14And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was deceived and fell into transgression. 15Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 3:16, Esther 1:20, 1 Corinthians 11:3, 1 Corinthians 14:34, 1 Corinthians 14:35, Ephesians 5:22-24, Colossians 3:18, 1 Peter 3:1, 1 Peter 3:5, 1 Peter 3:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:18 - I will Ephesians 5:21 - submitting Titus 2:5 - obedient

Cross-References

Genesis 10:7
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
Genesis 10:29
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
Genesis 25:18
Ishmael's descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
1 Samuel 15:7
Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let the woman learn in silence,.... The apostle goes on to give some other instructions to women, how they should behave themselves in public worship, in the church of God; he would have them be learners and not teachers, sit and hear, and learn more of Christ, and of the truth of the Gospel, and to maintain good works; and he would have them learn in silence, and not offer to rise and speak, under a pretence of having a word from the Lord, or of being under an impulse of the Spirit of the Lord, as some frantic women have done; and if they should meet with anything, under the ministry of the word, they did not understand, or they had an objection to, they were not to speak in public, but ask their own husbands at home; see 1 Corinthians 14:34. And thus, they were to behave

with all subjection; both to the ministers of the word, and to their own husbands; obeying from the heart the form of doctrine delivered to them; and submitting cheerfully to the ordinances of Christ; the whole of which is a professed subjection to the Gospel, and which becomes all professing godliness.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let the woman learn in silence - Listen attentively to instruction, without attempting to teach in public; see the notes on 1 Corinthians 14:35.

With all subjection - With due subjection to those who are in authority, and who are appointed to minister in holy things; notes, 1 Corinthians 14:34.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 11. Let the woman learn in silence — This is generally supposed to be a prohibition of women's preaching. I have already said what I judge necessary on this subject in the notes on "1 Corinthians 11:5", c., and 1 Corinthians 14:34; 1 Corinthians 14:35 to which places I beg leave to refer the reader.


 
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