1 Timothy 2:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

1 Timothy 2:12 —

Old words in this verse

suffer: — often: allow, permit.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 14:34
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.

Topics

Commandments Discipleship Disobedience to God Dowry Duty Law Minister, Christian Obedience

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. usurp authority--“to lord it over the man” [Alford], literally, “to be an autocrat.”