1 Timothy 2:12, KJV is often used as the main biblical authority for prohibiting women from becoming ordained clergy and certain other positions of ministry and leadership in Christianity—solely on the basis of gender.

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  • 1 Timothy 2:12, KJV is often used as the main biblical authority for prohibiting women from becoming ordained clergy and certain other positions of ministry and leadership in Christianity—solely on the basis of gender. This translation of 1 Timothy 2:12 is often used in many Christian churches to deny women a vote in church affairs, reject women from serving as teachers of adult Bible classes, prevented from serving as missionaries, and generally disenfranchised from the duties and privileges of church leadership. The apparent message of this verse is certainly strange and seemingly anachronistic to 21 century mentality with its emphasis on egalitarianism and non-discrimination. In the King James version of the New Testament, this verse in context is rendered: Any interpretation of this portion of Scripture must wrestle with the theological, contextual, syntactical, and lexical difficulties embedded within these few words.
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  • 1 Timothy 2:12, KJV
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  • 11Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 12But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 13For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 14And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. 15Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
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  • 1 Timothy 2:12, KJV is often used as the main biblical authority for prohibiting women from becoming ordained clergy and certain other positions of ministry and leadership in Christianity—solely on the basis of gender.
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  • 1 Timothy 2:12 (" I suffer not a woman")
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