1 Timothy 2:13
For Adam was formed first, and then Eve.
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ASV
For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
KJV
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
It was said, moreover, that it was not good for man to be alone. Yet we know that Adam did not commit sin before woman was created. However, after creation, she was the first to disobey the divine command and even allured her husband to sin. If, therefore, the woman is responsible for the sin, how then can her coming be considered a good?
For Adam was first formed, then Eve - The apostle, in this verse, and the following, gives reasons why a woman should occupy a subordinate situation, and not usurp authority. The first is, that she was second in the act of creation, or was made subsequent to man. The reason here assigned cannot be understood to be merely that of priority of existence - for then it would give every old person authority over a younger one; but it must refer to the circumstances of the case as detailed in the history of the creation; Gen. 1–
For--reason of the precept; the original order of creation. Adam . . . first--before Eve, who was created for him (1Co 11:8, 9).
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Genesis 1:27So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
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Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.
However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
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Genesis 2:18The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”
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He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.
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Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
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before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
