11Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
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Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. …
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. …
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.
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: …
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)I. Here is a charge, that women who profess the Christian religion should be modest, sober, silent, and submissive, as becomes their place. 1. They must be very modest in their apparel, not affecting gaudiness, gaiety, or costliness (you may read the vanity of a person’s mind in the gaiety and gaudiness of his habit), because they have better ornaments with which they should adorn themselves, with…
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