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NASB | 1 Timothy 2:15 But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 2:15 But women will be preserved (saved) through [the pain and dangers of] the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self-control and discretion. |
Subject: Can a woman speak in church? |
Bible Note: Hello, John (JVH0212): In pointing out the distinction between "may" and "can" you sound like my favorite professor of English. But keep sounding that way! Semantics holds a major key to one's ability to extract proper meaning from the written word. In no other body of writing that I can think of is this more important than in Scripture. I recall having read an essay once, whose title and author have long since escaped by recolletion, in which the author proposed the thesis that a great deal of our inability as human beings to understand each other revolves not around the fact that there are many languages in the world, but that we who presume to speak the same language do not, in fact, do so -- that there is a wide variance of understanding among us of the exact meaning of English words. I believe the forum is a rich laboratory in which this author's thesis is proved true day by day. -- Hank |