To the woman he said, “I will make your pangs in childbirth exceedingly great; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
1 Corinthians 14:34 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak but should be subordinate, as the law also says. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The women should keep quiet in the churches, for they are not authorized to speak, but should take a secondary and subordinate place, just as the Law also says. [Gen. 3:16.] American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible the women should be quiet during the meeting. They are not allowed to talk. Instead, they need to get under control, just as the Law says. Catholic Public Domain Version Women should be silent in the churches. For it is not permitted for them to speak; but instead, they should be subordinate, as the law also says. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith. |
To the woman he said, “I will make your pangs in childbirth exceedingly great; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head unveiled?
But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ.
but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled shames her head—it is one and the same thing as having her head shaved.
In the law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, yet even then they will not listen to me,” says the Lord.
If there is something they want to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.
to be self-controlled, chaste, good managers of the household, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited.