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Good News Translation

1 Timothy 2:13

For Adam was created first, and then Eve.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adam;   Eve;   Minister, Christian;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Adam;   Eve;   The Topic Concordance - Men;   Salvation;   Women;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Woman;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Eve;   Men;   Women;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Eve;   Fall, the;   Genesis, Theology of;   Sexuality, Human;   Timothy, First and Second, Theology of;   Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Christianity;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Eve;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Birth;   Eve;   Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Adam and Eve;   Eve;   Marriage;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Titus, Epistle to;   Woman;   1 Timothy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Adam in the Nt;   Eve;   Marriage;   Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Adam ;   Eve;   Form;   Parousia;   Salutations;   Soberness Sobriety;   Timothy and Titus Epistles to;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eve;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Fall of Man;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Temptation, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adam in the New Testament;   Eve in the New Testament;   Form;   Woman;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
King James Version (1611)
For Adam was first formed, then Eue:
King James Version
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
English Standard Version
For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
New American Standard Bible
For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve.
New Century Version
because Adam was formed first and then Eve.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve.
Legacy Standard Bible
For it was Adam who was first formed, and then Eve.
Berean Standard Bible
For Adam was formed first, and then Eve.
Contemporary English Version
After all, Adam was created before Eve,
Complete Jewish Bible
For Adam was formed first, then Havah.
Darby Translation
for Adam was formed first, then Eve:
Easy-to-Read Version
because Adam was made first. Eve was made later.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For Adam was first formed, then Eue.
George Lamsa Translation
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Lexham English Bible
For Adam was formed first, then Eve,
Literal Translation
For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
Amplified Bible
For Adam was formed first [by God from the earth], then Eve;
American Standard Version
For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
Bible in Basic English
For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
Hebrew Names Version
For Adam was first formed, then Havah.
International Standard Version
For Adam was formed first, then Eve.Genesis 1:27; 1 Corinthians 11:8-9;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
For Adam was formed first, then Hava;
Murdock Translation
For Adam was first formed, and then Eve.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For Adam was first fourmed, then Eue.
English Revised Version
For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
World English Bible
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Weymouth's New Testament
For Adam was formed first, and then Eve;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For Adam was first formed, aftirward Eue;
Update Bible Version
For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
Webster's Bible Translation
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
New English Translation
For Adam was formed first and then Eve.
New King James Version
For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
New Living Translation
For God made Adam first, and afterward he made Eve.
New Life Bible
Adam was made first, then Eve.
New Revised Standard
For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, Adam, first was formed, then Eve,
Douay-Rheims Bible
Adam was first formed; then Eve.
Revised Standard Version
For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For Adam was fyrst formed and then Eve.
Young's Literal Translation
for Adam was first formed, then Eve,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For Adam was first formed, and the Eue:
Mace New Testament (1729)
for Adam was the first that was form'd, then Eve.
Simplified Cowboy Version
There is a way of doing things. God made Adam first and then Eve.

Contextual Overview

9 I also want the women to be modest and sensible about their clothes and to dress properly; not with fancy hair styles or with gold ornaments or pearls or expensive dresses, 10 but with good deeds, as is proper for women who claim to be religious. 11 Women should learn in silence and all humility. 12 I do not allow them to teach or to have authority over men; they must keep quiet. 13 For Adam was created first, and then Eve. 14 And it was not Adam who was deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and broke God's law. 15 But a woman will be saved through having children, if she perseveres in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 1:27, Genesis 2:7, Genesis 2:18, Genesis 2:22, 1 Corinthians 11:8, 1 Corinthians 11:9

Cross-References

Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham—Cush, Egypt, Libya, and Canaan—were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
Isaiah 11:11
When that day comes, the Lord will once again use his power and bring back home those of his people who are left in Assyria and Egypt, in the lands of Pathros, Ethiopia, Elam, Babylonia, and Hamath, and in the coastlands and on the islands of the sea.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For Adam was first formed,.... Immediately by God, out of the dust of the earth; and the breath of life was breathed into him, and he became a living soul; thus wonderfully and fearfully was he made; after this he was put into the garden of Eden, to dress it, and all creatures were brought to him, to give them names; and still an help meet or a companion was not found for him. All this while Eve was not as yet formed, but after this,

then Eve. She was formed out of him, was made out of one of his ribs; and was formed for him, for his use, service, help and comfort; and here lies the strength of the apostle's reason, why the woman should be in subjection to the man; not so much because he was made before her; for so were the beasts of the field before Adam; and yet this gave them no superiority to him; but because she was made out of him, and made for him, see 1 Corinthians 11:8. So that the woman's subjection to the man is according to the laws of nature and creation; and was antecedent to the fall; and would have been, if that had never been; though that brought her into a lower, and meaner, and more depressed estate; which the apostle next mentions. The words may be rendered, "the first Adam", or "Adam the first was formed, and then Eve". See 1 Corinthians 15:45.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For Adam was first formed, then Eve - The apostle, in this verse, and the following, gives reasons why a woman should occupy a subordinate situation, and not usurp authority. The first is, that she was second in the act of creation, or was made subsequent to man. The reason here assigned cannot be understood to be merely that of priority of existence - for then it would give every old person authority over a younger one; but it must refer to the circumstances of the case as detailed in the history of the creation; Gen. 1–2. Man was made as the lord of this lower creation and placed in the garden, and then the woman was made of a rib taken from his side, and given to him, not as a lord, but as a companion. All the circumstances combine to show the subordinate nature of her rank, and to prove that she was not designed to exert authority over the man; compare notes on 1 Corinthians 11:8-9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 13. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. — And by this very act God designed that he should have the pre-eminence. God fitted man, by the robust construction of his body, to live a public life, to contend with difficulties, and to be capable of great exertions. The structure of woman's body plainly proves that she was never designed for those exertions required in public life. In this the chief part of the natural inferiority of woman is to be sought.


 
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