I Timothy 2:8-15
Taking out all the positives and negatives in verses 9 and 10, here is what we are left with: …women should adorn themselves … with good works. (vv. 9-10, edited) Thankfully, most of the women I know do these very things. We need another two verses for men, with the same ending, good works!
I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. (v. 12) Both of my Study Bibles argued against a global, for-all-time pronouncement by Paul against female leadership and teaching. Rather, they pointed to time-specific issues in Ephesus – specifically an abundance of false teaching in the Ephesus community and living within the male-dominated Roman social climate – which would lead Paul to write down these restrictions.
Slava Bohu!