1 Corinthians 14:34 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁴ Women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak but should be subordinate, as the law also says.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ 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)

³⁴ 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

³⁴ 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

³⁴ 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.

1 Corinthians 14:34 Cross References

Genesis 3:16

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.”

Colossians 3:18

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 14:35

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.

Titus 2:5

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.

1 Corinthians 11:5

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.

1 Corinthians 11:3

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.

Ephesians 5:33

Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.

1 Corinthians 14:21

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.

1 Corinthians 11:13

Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head unveiled?