KJV 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.
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1 Corinthians 14:34
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.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.
WEB World English Bible
let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.
ASV American Standard Version
let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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;
Surrounding context — 1 Corinthians 14
31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
33 For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
34 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.
35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?
37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ΑἱG3588 · hothe/this/whoγυναῖκεςG1135 · gunēwomanἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongταῖςG3588 · hothe/this/whoἐκκλησίαιςG1577 · ekklēsiaassemblyσιγάτωσαν·G4601 · sigaōbe silentοὐG3756 · ounoγὰρG1063 · garforἐπιτρέπεταιG2010 · epitrepōto permitαὐταῖςG846 · autosit/s/heλαλεῖν,G2980 · laleōto speakἀλλ᾽G235 · allabutὑποτασσέσθωσανG5293 · hupotassōto subjectκαθὼςG2531 · kathōsas/just asκαὶG2532 · kaiandὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoνόμοςG3551 · nomoslawλέγει.G3004 · legōto say
Cross-references
1 Timothy 2:11-12Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.Genesis 3:16Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.Numbers 30:3-13If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind [herself] by a bond, [being] in her father’s house in her youth;1 Corinthians 14:35And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.Colossians 3:18Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.Titus 2:5[To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.1 Corinthians 11:5But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with [her] head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.1 Peter 3:1-6Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;1 Corinthians 11:3But 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 5:22-24Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.1 Corinthians 11:7-10For a man indeed ought not to cover [his] head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.Esther 1:17-20For [this] deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.1 Corinthians 14:21In the law it is written, With [men of] other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
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