⁸ For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;^(A)

¹⁶ To the woman he said,

¹¹ A woman^[a] should learn in quietness and full submission.^(A)

¹² I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;^[a] she must be quiet.^(A)

3 Wives, in the same way submit yourselves^(A) to your own husbands^(B) so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over^(C) without words by the behavior of their wives,

⁵ For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God^(A) used to adorn themselves.^(B) They submitted themselves to their own husbands,

⁶ like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord.^(A) You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.