As the concluding text to one of the more controversial Pauline teachings about women in the church community, 1 Timothy 2:15 carries a host of grammatical, semantic, and cultural questions that tax the most motivated and careful exegete. It is rendered distinctly troublesome by the change in number in the verbs and debates about their referent(s), the meaning of "salvation, " and Paul's choice of desired attributes. I examine Paul's use of the figure of Eve by looking first at the Genesis passage, where I consider her role as Adam's helper, her fall, her curse, and her recovery as keys to interpret her mention in 1 Timothy 2. I offer a surprising solution: Adam, not Eve, is saved through childbirth; that is, humanity is savedfrom extinction through the woman's role of mother with the condition that the couple, that is, men and women in the church, maintain the godly attributes listed.