Sometimes we read things in the Bible that can sound pretty shocking. They make us stop and kind of scratch our heads and wonder what we just read. 1 Timothy 2 ends in a passage just like that. The initial reading of this passage sounds like a way to put women in their place and that place is one of silence and childbirth. That’s their job. But with a little more digging and contextualization, we see that Paul’s goal was actually very different.