1 Corinthians 14:34
Women should be silent in the churches. For it is not permitted for them to speak; but instead, they should be subordinate, as the law also says.
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In Context
33And God is not of dissension, but of peace, just as I also teach in all the churches of the saints.
Cross References
Numbers 30:3If any man makes a vow to the Lord, or binds himself by an oath, he shall not make his word null and void, but all that he has promised, he shall fulfill.
1 Corinthians 11:3So I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ. But the head of woman is man. Yet truly, the head of Christ is God.
1 Corinthians 11:7Certainly, a man ought not to cover his head, for he is the image and glory of God. But woman is the glory of man.
1 Corinthians 14:35And if they want to learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.
Ephesians 5:33Yet truly, each and every one of you should love his wife as himself. And a wife should fear her husband.
1 Timothy 2:11Let a woman learn in silence with 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 →