1Tim 2:15 Saved for Childbearing

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Saved for Childbearing

1Tim 2:15  Nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

In contrast to the previous verses in which Paul was speaking of roles in which women are to be omitted, here Paul speaks of a role clearly designed for women by their very nature - namely childbearing - a role saved for them.

And notice a similar style in 1Cor 11 where Paul first speaks of the subordinate role of women, and then switches to speak of the essential role of women.

1Cor 11:8-9,11-12 "For man is not from woman, but woman from man. Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man. ... Nevertheless, neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord. For as woman came from man, even so man also comes through woman; but all things are from God."
But what is the meaning of the conditional phrase "if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control." What I think he means is that the physical bearing children is of itself not necessarily what constitutes the childbearing role God assigned to women. Rather it is if in bearing children they also continue in faith, love, and holiness, then they are conformed to their God-given childbearing role. For God designed the role of childbearing to be more than that of just bearing children. And the nurturing of children requires much more than meeting their physical needs.

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