1 Corinthians 14:34
"In your congregation" you write, "as in all the churches of the saints, let the women keep silence in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. On the contrary let them be subordinate, as also says the law.
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1 Corinthians 11:3But I wish you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and of a wife her husband is head; and that God is head of Christ.
1 Corinthians 11:7A man, indeed, ought not to have his head veiled, for he is an image and glory of God; but woman is a glory of man.
1 Corinthians 14:35And if they want to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a women to speak in church."
Ephesians 5:33But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.
1 Timothy 2:11Let a woman learn quietly in entire submission.
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 →