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.
KJV
Εἰ δέ τι μαθεῖν θέλουσιν, ἐν οἴκῳ τοὺς ἰδίους ἄνδρας ἐπερωτάτωσαν, αἰσχρὸν γάρ ἐστιν γυναικὶ λαλεῖν ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ.
Greek NT
Si quid autem volunt discere, domi viros suos interrogent. Turpe est enim mulieri loqui in ecclesia.
Vulgate
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.
ASV
But if they would learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- μαθεῖν — SBLGNT
- μαθεῖν — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- μανθάνειν — Westcott-Hort
- λαλεῖν ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ — SBLGNT
- λαλεῖν ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ λαλεῖν — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§752In Christian usage, the word "church" designates the liturgical assembly,141 but also the local community142 or the whole universal community of believers.143 These three meanings are inseparable. "The Church" is the People that God gathers in the whole world. She exists in local communities and is made real as a liturgical, above all a Eucharistic, assembly. She draws her life…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210231.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
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 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.
- 1Pet 3:7 — Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hinder
- Eph 5:12 — For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.