1 Corinthians 14:34 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁴ Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith.

1 Corinthians 14:34 Cross References

Genesis 3:16

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

1 Corinthians 11:13

Judge ye in yourselves: is it seemly that a woman pray unto God unveiled?

1 Corinthians 11:3

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 11:5

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoureth her head: for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

1 Corinthians 14:21

In the law it is written, By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

1 Corinthians 14:35

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.

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Colossians 3:18

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

Titus 2:5

to be soberminded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed: