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1 Corinthians 14:34

let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.

American Standard Version

In The King James Version

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

In Context

33for God is not [a God] of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

35And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church.

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Cross References

Numbers 30:3Also when a woman voweth a vow unto Jehovah, and bindeth herself by a bond, being in her father`s house, in her youth,

1 Corinthians 11:3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 11:7For a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

1 Corinthians 14:35And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church.

Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.

1 Timothy 2:11Let a woman learn in quietness 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 →

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