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

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For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.

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16 To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
    with painful labor you will give birth to children.(A)
Your desire will be for your husband,
    and he will rule over you.(B)

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

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

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 2:11 Or wife; also in verse 12

11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

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

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 2:12 Or over her husband

12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

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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,

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Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

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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,

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For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

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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.

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Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

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