1 Corinthians 14:34

Let your women be silent in the churches: for it is not permitted to them to speak: but to be in subjection, as also the law saith.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of his saints.

35But if they will learn any thing, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:3But I desire you to take notice that the head of every man is Christ; but 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 veil his head, being the image and the glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

1 Corinthians 14:35But if they will learn any thing, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless let every one of you individually see that each love his own wife even as himself; but the wife that she stand in awe of the husband.

1 Timothy 2:11Let the 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 →

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