1 Corinthians 14:35 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But if there is anything they want to learn, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to talk in church [for her to usurp and exercise authority over men in the church].

American Standard Version (1901)

And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church.

Common English Bible

If they want to learn something, they should ask their husbands at home. It is disgraceful for a woman to talk during the meeting.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And if they want to learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But if they would learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.

1 Corinthians 14:35 Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:14

Does not nature itself teach you that, if a man wears long hair, it is dishonoring to him,

1 Corinthians 11:6

For if a woman will not veil herself, then she should cut off her hair, but if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, she should wear a veil.

1 Corinthians 14:34

Women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak but should be subordinate, as the law also says.

1 Corinthians 14:36

Or did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only ones it has reached?

Ephesians 5:12

For it is shameful even to mention what such people do secretly,

1 Peter 3:7

Husbands, in the same way, show consideration for your wives in your life together, paying honor to the woman—though the weaker vessel, they are joint heirs of the gracious gift of life—so that nothing may hinder your prayers.