Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Let a woman learn in silence in all subjection.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Holman Bible
A woman should learn in silence with full submission.
International Standard Version
Let a woman learn with a quiet spirit, and submissively.
American Standard Version
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
Amplified
A woman must quietly receive instruction with all submissiveness.
An Understandable Version
A woman should learn [the Scriptures] in quietness, being fully submissive.
Anderson New Testament
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Bible in Basic English
Let a woman quietly take the place of a learner and be under authority.
Common New Testament
Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Let the women with submissive silence attend to instruction.
Darby Translation
Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection;
Godbey New Testament
Let a woman learn in silence in all submission;
Goodspeed New Testament
Women must listen quietly in church and be perfectly submissive.
John Wesley New Testament
Let a woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Julia Smith Translation
Let the woman, in freedom from care, learn in all subjection.
King James 2000
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A woman must learn in quietness with all submission.
Modern King James verseion
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Moffatt New Testament
A woman must listen quietly in church and be perfectly submissive;
Montgomery New Testament
Let a woman learn quietly in entire submission.
NET Bible
A woman must learn quietly with all submissiveness.
New Heart English Bible
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
Noyes New Testament
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Sawyer New Testament
Let a woman learn quietly in all subjection;
The Emphasized Bible
Let, a woman, in quietness, be learning in all submission;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection:
Twentieth Century New Testament
A woman should listen silently to her teachers, and show them all deference.
Webster
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Weymouth New Testament
A woman should quietly learn from others with entire submissiveness.
Williams New Testament
A married woman must learn in quiet and in perfect submission.
World English Bible
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
Worrell New Testament
Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection.
Worsley New Testament
Let the woman learn in silence with all submission: but I permit not a woman to teach,
Youngs Literal Translation
Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,
Themes
Men » Men being the head of women
Women » Characteristics of » Subjection of
Topics
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Timothy 2:11
Images 1 Timothy 2:11
Prayers for 1 Timothy 2:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Instructions For Women
10 but (which is fitting for women professing godliness) through good works. 11 Let a woman learn in silence in all subjection. 12 But I do not allow a woman to teach, nor to act autonomously from a man, but to be in quietness.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Corinthians 14:34-35
As in all the churches of the sanctified, let the women keep silent in the churches. For it is not permitted for them to speak, but to be subordinate, as the law also says.
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy childbearing, in pain thou shall bring forth children. And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Esther 1:20
And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
Ephesians 5:22-24
Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.
Colossians 3:18
Wives, be ye submissive to your own husbands as is proper in Lord.
Titus 2:5
to be serious-minded, pure, homemakers, good, submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be blasphemed.
1 Peter 3:1
Likewise the wives, being subordinate to their own husbands, so that even if any are disobedient to the word, they will be gained without a word by the behavior of the wives,
1 Peter 3:5-6
For this way formerly also, the holy women, trusting in God, adorned themselves, being subordinate to their own husbands,