1 Corinthians 14:34
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.
KJV
αἱ γυναῖκες ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις σιγάτωσαν, οὐ γὰρ ἐπιτρέπεται αὐταῖς λαλεῖν· ἀλλὰ ὑποτασσέσθωσαν, καθὼς καὶ ὁ νόμος λέγει.
Greek NT
Mulieres in ecclesiis taceant, non enim permittitur eis loqui, sed subditas esse, sicut et lex dicit.
Vulgate
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.
ASV
Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak but to be subject, as also the law saith.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθώς
kathos
adverb · 181×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
λαλέω
laleo
verb · 298×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
σιγάω
sigao
verb · 10×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἐκκλησία
ekklesia
noun · 114×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐπιτρέπω
epitrepo
verb · 18×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑποτάσσω
upotasso
verb · 38×
Textual variants
3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: γυναῖκες | WH/Treg/NIV: γυναῖκες | RP: + ὑμῶν
- γυναῖκες — SBLGNT
- γυναῖκες — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ὑμῶν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἐπιτρέπεται | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐπιτρέπεται | RP: ἐπιτέτραπται
- ἐπιτρέπεται — SBLGNT
- ἐπιτρέπεται — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐπιτέτραπται — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ὑποτασσέσθωσαν | WH/Treg/NIV: ὑποτασσέσθωσαν | RP: ὑποτάσσεσθαι
- ὑποτασσέσθωσαν — SBLGNT
- ὑποτασσέσθωσαν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ὑποτάσσεσθαι — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Doctrines that cite this verse
Historic Christian voices
9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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The Apostle Paul doth plainly say: I suffer not a woman to teach, neither to usurp authority above the man. And again, in the same epistle, he commands women to be silent in the congregation. If women may not teach in the congregation, much less ought they to rule over realms and nations.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 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.
- 1Cor 11:5 — But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
- 1Cor 11:5 — But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
- 1Cor 11:7 — For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
- 1Cor 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.
- 1Pet 3:1 — Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
- 1Tim 2:11 — Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
- 1Tim 2:11 — Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
- 1Tim 2:12 — But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
- Col 3:18 — Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
- Col 3:18 — Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
- Eph 5:22 — Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
- Eph 5:22 — Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
- Eph 5:33 — Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
- Esth 1:17 — For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be bro
- Exod 15:20 — And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
- Gen 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.
- Gen 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.
- Num 30:3 — If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;
- Titus 2:5 — To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.