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1 Timothy 2 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
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</span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>also that the women should dress themselves modestly and decently in suitable clothing, not with their hair braided, or with gold, pearls, or expensive clothes, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>but with good works, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Let a woman<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-33983b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> learn in silence with full submission. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>I permit no woman<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-33984c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> to teach or to have authority over a man;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-33984d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> she is to keep silent. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>For Adam was formed first, then Eve; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Yet she will be saved through childbearing, provided they continue in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Timothy 2:7">1 Timothy 2:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities add <i>in Christ</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Timothy 2:11">1 Timothy 2:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>wife</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Timothy 2:12">1 Timothy 2:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>wife</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Timothy 2:12">1 Timothy 2:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>her husband</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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