1 Corinthians 14:35 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁵And 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 14:35 —

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Ephesians 5:12
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
1 Peter 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 hindered.
1 Corinthians 11:14
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
Ephesians 5:25-27
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; …
1 Corinthians 11:6
For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

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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 pray an…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 35)

35. Anticipation of an objection. Women may say, “But if we do not understand something, may we not ‘ask’ a question publicly so as to ‘learn’? Nay, replies Paul, if you want information, ‘ask’ not in public, but ‘at home’; ask not other men, but ‘your own particular (so the Greek) husbands.’” shame--indecorous.