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“…..She Shall Be Saved In Childbearing” – What Does It Mean?

Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin Articles

A querist asks, “Can you please provide my wife and I the proper interpretation of 1 Timothy 2:15?”

This passage states, “Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.”

Various kinds of interpretations of this verse have been advocated. It is a high probability that the phrase, “in childbearing” is a synecdoche for “the entire status of women in their relationship to God and men.” Keeping this thought in mind, the following studies by faithful gospel preachers are provided: