1 Corinthians 14:35

if they desire to learn anything. “Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a wife to be talking in the assembly.”

World English Bible

In The King James Version

And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

In Context

34Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

36What!? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:14Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

Ephesians 5:12For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.

1 Peter 3:7You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 14:35-36

On Spiritual Gifts. ( a. d. 57.) 34 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. 35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. Here the apostle, 1. Enjoins silence on their women in public assemblies, and to such a degree that they must not ask questions for their own information in the church, but ask their husbands at… Read the whole commentary →

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