1 Corinthians 14:34

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

1770 John Worsley NT

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 we see in all the assemblies of the saints.

35And if they would learn any thing, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it does not become women to speak in a public assembly.

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Cross References

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

1 Corinthians 14:35And if they would learn any thing, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it does not become women to speak in a public assembly.

Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and let the wife reverence her husband.

1 Timothy 2:11Let the woman learn in silence with all submission: but I permit not a woman to teach,

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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