A moment in scripture
1 Corinthians 14:34
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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.
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The surrounding passage
- 1 Corinthians 14:32
And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
- 1 Corinthians 14:33
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
- 1 Corinthians 14:35
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.
- 1 Corinthians 14:36
What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.