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1 Timothy 2:14

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

KJV

καὶ Ἀδὰμ οὐκ ἠπατήθη, ἡ δὲ γυνὴ ἐξαπατηθεῖσα ἐν παραβάσει γέγονεν,

Greek NT

et Adam non est seductus : mulier autem seducta in prævaricatione fuit.

Vulgate

and Adam was not beguiled, but the woman being beguiled hath fallen into transgression:

ASV

And Adam was not seduced; but the woman, being seduced, was in the transgression.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
παράβασις
parabasis
noun · 7×
ἀπατάω
apatao
verb · 3×
Ἀδάμ
adam
noun · 9×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐξαπατάω
exapatao
verb · 6×
o
article · 19778×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • Gen 3:6 · allusion
    "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat."
    Genesis: the woman was deceived — Paul references the fall

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: ἐξαπατηθεῖσα | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐξαπατηθεῖσα | RP: ἀπατηθεῖσα
  • ἐξαπατηθεῖσαSBLGNT
  • ἐξαπατηθεῖσαWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἀπατηθεῖσαRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

8 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/210225.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
2. Having finished therefore all the discourses concerning all these things, he next proceeds also to another accusation. And what was this? Their women used both to pray and prophesy unveiled and with their head bare, (for then women also used to prophesy;) but the men went so far as to wear long hair as having spent their time in philosophy , and covered their heads when pray…
Chapter 11.—Of the Fall of the First Man, in Whom Nature Was Created Good, and Can Be Restored Only by Its Author. But because God foresaw all things, and was therefore not ignorant that man also would fall, we ought to consider this holy city in connection with what God foresaw and ordained, and not according to our own ideas, which do not embrace God’s ordination. For man, by…
Did the first man see the Essence of God? Could he see the separate substances, that is, the angels? Did he possess all knowledge? Could he err or be deceived? Article 1. Whether the first man saw God through His Essence? Objection 1. It would seem that the first man saw God through His Essence. For man's happiness consists in the vision of the Divine Essence. But the first man…
Q. But doesn't God do us an injustice by requiring in his law what we are unable to do? A. No, God created human beings with the ability to keep the law. They, however, tempted by the devil, in reckless disobedience, robbed themselves and all their descendants of these gifts.

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 11:3 — But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
  • 2Cor 11:3 — But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
  • Gen 3:4 — And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
  • Gen 3:6 — And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto
  • Gen 3:6 — And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto
  • Gen 3:12 — And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
  • Gen 3:13 — And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
  • Rev 12:9 — And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.