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1 Corinthians 14:34

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Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

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1 Corinthians 14:34 in other translations

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.

1 Corinthians 14:34 · American Standard Version

1 Corinthians 14:34 in context

  1. 32The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,
  2. 33for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
  3. 34Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,
  4. 35if they desire to learn anything. “Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a wife to be talking in the assembly.”
  5. 36What!? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?