1 Corinthians 14:34

the women should not be permitted {do not permit the women} to interrupt the meeting by asking questions. They must keep quiet. They must be subject to their husbands. What Moses wrote [PRS] about how God created the first two people suggests that the women should do that.

Translation for Translators

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

33Remember that God does not desire that things be done in a disorderly way during your worship services. Instead, he desires that everything be done in an orderly way. Just like it happens in all the other congregations of believers,

35If they want to know more about something that a speaker said, they should ask their husbands when they get home, for it is disgraceful for women to interrupt a service by asking such questions.

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Cross References

Numbers 30:3“If a young woman who is still living with her parents solemnly promises to Yahweh to do something,

1 Corinthians 11:3Now, I want you to know that the one who has authority over [MTY] every man is Christ, and the ones who have authority over women are men (OR, their husbands), and the one who has authority over Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 11:7Men should not wear coverings over their heads when they pray or speak messages that God gave them, because they represent what God is like [MET] and they show how great God is. But women show how great men (OR, their husbands) are.

1 Corinthians 14:35If they want to know more about something that a speaker said, they should ask their husbands when they get home, for it is disgraceful for women to interrupt a service by asking such questions.

Ephesians 5:33However, as for you(pl), each man must love his wife just as he loves himself, and each woman must respect her husband.

1 Timothy 2:11Women must learn to listen quietly during the worship services and to fully subject themselves to the leaders of the congregation.

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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