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1 Timothy 2:9-13 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

9. Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments,

10. but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.

11. A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness.

12. But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.

13. For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve.

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