1 Corinthians 14:34
Good News Translation
the women should keep quiet in the meetings. They are not allowed to speak; as the Jewish Law says, they must not be in charge.

New Revised Standard Version
women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as the law also says.

Contemporary English Version
the women must not be allowed to speak. They must keep quiet and listen, as the Law of Moses teaches.

New American Bible
women should keep silent in the churches, for they are not allowed to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak but to be subject, as also the law saith.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak but to be subject, as also the law saith.

women.

1 Corinthians 11:5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven.

1 Timothy 2:11,12 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. . . .

they are.

1 Corinthians 14:35 But if they would learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.

1 Corinthians 11:3,7-10 But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ: and the head of the woman is the man: and the head of Christ is God. . . .

Ephesians 5:22-24,33 Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord: . . .

Colossians 3:18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.

Titus 2:5 To be discreet, chaste, sober, having a care of the house, gentle, obedient to their husbands: that the word of God be not blasphemed.

1 Peter 3:1-6 In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives, . . .

as.

1 Corinthians 14:21 In the law it is written: In other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people: and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.

Genesis 3:16 To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

Numbers 30:3-13 If a woman vow any thing, and bind herself by an oath, being in her father's house, and but yet a girl in age: if her father knew the vow that she hath promised, and the oath wherewith she hath bound her soul, and held his peace, she shall be bound by the vow: . . .

Esther 1:17-20 For this deed of the queen will go abroad to all women, so that they will despise their husbands, and will say: King Assuerus commanded that queen Vasthi should come in to him, and she would not. . . .

Context
Orderly Worship
33For God is not the God of dissension, but of peace: as also I teach in all the churches of the saints. 34Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak but to be subject, as also the law saith. 35But if they would learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.…
Cross References
Genesis 3:16
To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

1 Corinthians 11:5
But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven.

1 Corinthians 11:13
You yourselves judge. Doth it become a woman to pray unto God uncovered?

1 Corinthians 14:21
In the law it is written: In other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people: and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.

1 Corinthians 14:35
But if they would learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.

Ephesians 5:22
Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

1 Timothy 2:11
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

1 Timothy 2:12
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.

1 Peter 3:1
In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives,

1 Corinthians 14:33
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