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Therefore (A)I want the men (B)in every place to pray, (C)lifting up (D)holy hands, without wrath and dissension.

Instructions for Women

Likewise, I want (E)women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, with modesty and self-restraint, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly clothing, 10 but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women professing godliness. 11 (F)A woman must learn in quietness, in all submission. 12 (G)But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. 13 (H)For it was Adam who was first formed, and then Eve. 14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but (I)the woman being deceived, [a]fell into trespass. 15 But she will be [b]saved through the bearing of children, if they continue in (J)faith and love and sanctification with self-restraint.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 2:14 Lit has come
  2. 1 Timothy 2:15 Or vindicated, cf. 4:16