1 Corinthians 14:34
Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
33for God is not [a God] of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
Cross References
Numbers 30:3'And when a woman voweth a vow to Jehovah, and hath bound a bond in the house of her father in her youth,
1 Corinthians 11:3and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.
1 Corinthians 11:7for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,
1 Corinthians 14:35and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.
Ephesians 5:33but ye also, every one in particular — let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife — that she may reverence the husband.
1 Timothy 2:11Let a woman in quietness learn in 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 →