34Let 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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Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. …
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.
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; …
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 34-35)Here the apostle, 1. Enjoins silence on their women in public assemblies, and to such a degree that they must not ask questions for their own information in the church, but ask their husbands at home. They are to learn in silence with all subjection; but , says the apostle, I suffer them not to teach , 1 Tim. 2:11 , 12 . There is indeed an intimation (1 Cor. 11:5) as if the women sometimes did pra…
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