The First Epistle To Timothy - Executable Outlines

Instructions To Women
1 Timothy 2:9-15
Mark A. Copeland
INTRODUCTION
1. The purpose of 1st Timothy is found in 1 Ti 3:14-15...
a. That we might know how to conduct ourselves in God’s family, the church
b. E.g., Paul’s instruction to men regarding prayer - 1 Ti 2:1-8
2. In 1 Ti 2:9-15, Paul addresses the women, and gives instructions concerning...
a. Their adornment - 1 Ti 2:9-10
b. Their submission - 1 Ti 2:11-15
[His instructions may seem antiquated, but women seeking to please God will do well to give earnest
heed. Consider, then, what is written about...]
I. THE ADORNMENT OF WOMEN
A. “IN LIKE MANNER...”
1. Just as men are to pray ‘everywhere’, ‘without wrath and doubting’ - 1 Ti 2:8
2. So these instructions to women apply ‘everywhere’, ‘without wrath and doubting’
3. “The apostle had stated particularly the duty of men in public worship (1 Ti 2:8), and he
now proceeds to state the duty of women. All the directions here evidently refer to the
proper manner of conducting public worship, and not to private duties; and the object here
is to state the way in which he would have the different sexes appear.” - Barnes
a. “He had said that he would have prayers offered for all people (1Ti 2:1ff), and that in
offering such petitions he would have the men on whom devolved the duty of conducting
public devotion, do it with holy hands, and without any intermingling of passion, and
with entire freedom from the spirit of contention.” - ibid.
b. “In reference to the duty of females in attendance on public worship, he says that he
would have them appear in apparel suitable to the place and the occasion - adorned
not after the manner of the world, but with the zeal and love in the cause of the
Redeemer which became Christians.” - ibid.
B. “ADORN THEMSELVES IN MODEST APPAREL...”
1. Lit., “adorn themselves in adorning attire”; the word modest means:
a. “orderly, well-arranged, decent” - Vine
b. “well-arranged, becoming’ - RWP
c. The NASB uses the word ‘proper’
2. “It does not, properly, mean modest in the sense of being opposed to that which is
immodest, or which tends to excite improper passions and desires, but that which is
becoming or appropriate.” - Barnes
3. What constitutes ‘proper’ apparel is further defined by Paul as he continues...
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