1 Timothy 2:12
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
KJV
διδάσκειν δὲ γυναικὶ οὐκ ἐπιτρέπω, οὐδὲ αὐθεντεῖν ἀνδρός, ἀλλ’ εἶναι ἐν ἡσυχίᾳ.
Greek NT
Docere autem mulieri non permitto, neque dominari in virum : sed esse in silentio.
Vulgate
But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.
ASV
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐθεντέω
authenteo
verb · 1×
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
διδάσκω
didasko
verb · 97×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὐδέ
oude
conjunction · 137×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐπιτρέπω
epitrepo
verb · 18×
ἡσυχία
esuchia
noun · 4×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: διδάσκειν δὲ γυναικὶ | WH/Treg/NIV: διδάσκειν δὲ γυναικὶ | RP: Γυναικὶ δὲ διδάσκειν
- διδάσκειν δὲ γυναικὶ — SBLGNT
- διδάσκειν δὲ γυναικὶ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- Γυναικὶ δὲ διδάσκειν — Robinson-Pierpont
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Doctrines that cite this verse
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210231.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Was the Blessed Virgin, Mother of God, sanctified before her birth from the womb? Was she sanctified before animation? Was the fomes of sin entirely taken away from her in virtue of this sanctification? Was the result of this sanctification that she never sinned? In virtue of this sanctification, did she receive the fulness of grace? Was it proper to her to be thus sanctified? …
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to His revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice. For who can deny but it repugneth to nature that the blind shall be appointed to lead and con…
The Apostle Paul doth plainly say: I suffer not a woman to teach, neither to usurp authority above the man. And again, in the same epistle, he commands women to be silent in the congregation. If women may not teach in the congregation, much less ought they to rule over realms and nations.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 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.
- Col 3:18 — Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
- Esth 1:22 — For he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and