1 Corinthians 14:34
As in all the churches of the sanctified, let the women keep silent in the churches. For it is not permitted for them to speak, but to be subordinate, as the law also says.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
33for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace.
Cross References
Numbers 30:3Also when a woman vows a vow to LORD, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,
1 Corinthians 11:3But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
1 Corinthians 11:7For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory of God, but woman is a glory of man.
1 Corinthians 14:35And if they want to learn anything, let them question their own husbands at home, for it is an ugly thing for women to speak in an assembly.
Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless ye also, each one in particular, shall so love his own wife as himself, and the wife that she fear her husband.
1 Timothy 2:11Let a woman learn in silence in all subjection.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 14:27-34
On Spiritual Gifts. ( a. d. 57.) 26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. 27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. 28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God. 29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let… Read the whole commentary →