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1 Timothy 2:11-15 context: instructions to men (avoid anger/quarreling in prayer) and women (modesty, inner vs. outer beauty).

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Lady D asks about 1 Timothy 2:11-15 regarding women being silent and not having authority.

Mike sets the context: the passage gives parallel instructions to men and women. Men are told to pray lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling (two hindrances to communal prayer). Women are told to adorn themselves in respectable apparel with modesty and self-control — prioritizing the inner person over external appearance. The world inverts this by promoting external beauty competition.

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