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.

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.”

1 Corinthians 11:13

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

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.

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 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 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.

Ephesians 5:33

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

Colossians 3:18

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

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.