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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.
1 Corinthians 14:34 · King James Version

In other versions

  • 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.

    ASV

  • Let women keep quiet in the churches: for it is not right for them to be talking; but let them be under control, as it says in the law.

    BBE

  • Let [your] women be silent in the assemblies, for it is not permitted to them to speak; but to be in subjection, as the law also says.

    DBY

  • 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.

    WEB

  • 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;

    YLT

  • 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 says the law.

    ENG

  • Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted to them to speak: but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

    WBT

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

    BSB

In context

32And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

33For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

34Let 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.

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.

36What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

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