1 Corinthians 14:34 BSB

1 Corinthians 14:34

Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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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Commentary

1 voice

Cyprian

Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews (258)

That a woman ought to be silent in the church. In the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: "Let women be silent in the church. But if any wish to learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home." Also to Timothy: "Let a woman learn with silence, in all subjection. But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to be set over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve; and Adam was not seduced, but the woman was seduced."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Let your women be silent in the churches - Unless they are under an extraordinary impulse of the Spirit. For, in other cases, it is not permitted them to speak - By way of teaching in public assemblies. But to be in subjection - To the man whose proper office it is to lead and to instruct the congregation.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Let your women keep silence in the churches - This was a Jewish ordinance; women were not permitted to teach in the assemblies, or even to ask questions. The rabbins taught that “a woman should know nothing but the use of her distaff.” And the sayings of Rabbi Eliezer, as delivered, Bammidbar Rabba, sec. 9, fol.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Αἱ	Hai	the	G3588 →
γυναῖκες	gunaikes	women	G1135 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ταῖς	tais	the	G3588 →
ἐκκλησίαις	ekklēsiais	churches	G1577 →
σιγάτωσαν·	sigatōsan	they should be silent;	G4601 →
οὐ	ou	Not	G3756 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ἐπιτρέπεται	epitrepetai	it is allowed	G2010 →
αὐταῖς	autais	to them	G846 →
λαλεῖν,	lalein	to speak,	G2980 →
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
ὑποτασσέσθωσαν	hupotassesthōsan	they should be submitted	G5293 →
καθὼς	kathōs	even as	G2531 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
νόμος	nomos	law	G3551 →
λέγει.	legei	says.	G3004 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 11:3
  But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Titus 2:5
  to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.
- Colossians 3:18
  Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
- Ephesians 5:22–24
  Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
- 1 Timothy 2:15
  Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.
Through
Colossians 3:18
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
leads to
- Ephesians 5:22
  Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
- Titus 2:4–5
  In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,
- 1 Peter 3:1–6
  Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About 1 Corinthians

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 1 Corinthians