Let Her Learn

The most-cited verse in the women-in-ministry debate is 1 Timothy 2:12 — "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man." This article works through the whole passage: what authentein actually means, why the confusing bits of vv. 13–15 are less prohibitive than they appear, what "a one-woman man" does and doesn't tell us about female elders. Article 6 in the Counterparts Not Copies series.