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Women in the Church: An Interpretation and Application of 1 Timothy 2:9–15 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The role of women in the church is highly debated, with Christians on all sides using Paul’s teachings in 1 Timothy to justify their positions. Now in its third edition, this classic book edited by Andreas Köstenberger and Thomas Schreiner offers a robust exegesis of 1 Timothy 2:9–15, looking at the passage’s background, syntax, grammar, and enduring significance. Featuring updated essays and...

that women are permitted to teach elsewhere (Titus 2:3); and that all believers are to teach one another (Col. 3:16).127 But complementarians do not doubt that women can teach children or other women. In fact, Titus 2:3–4 speaks specifically of women teaching other women, and thus the appeal to women teaching in that passage hardly violates what Paul says in 1 Timothy 2:12. Neither does Priscilla and Aquila’s private teaching of Apollos contradict Paul’s teaching here, for that is profoundly different
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