Devine Scripture

1 Timothy 2:11

1 Timothy chapter 2 · verse 11 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

Context

v.10but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.

v.11This passage

v.12But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Peter 3:5

    For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

  • Genesis 3:16

    Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

  • Colossians 3:18

    Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

  • 1 Peter 3:1

    In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

  • 1 Corinthians 14:34

    let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.

  • 1 Corinthians 11:3

    But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.