1 Corinthians 14:35 Parallel Translations

If they want to know anything they should ask their husbands at home. It's shameful for a woman to speak in church.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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.

ASV:

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.

BBE:

And if they have a desire for knowledge about anything, let them put questions to their husbands privately: for talking in the church puts shame on a woman.

DBY:

But if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in assembly.

ERV:

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.

WEY:

and if they wish to ask questions, they should ask their own husbands at home. For it is disgraceful for a married woman to speak at a Church assembly.

WBS:

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.

WEB:

If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the assembly.

YLT:

and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.

1 Corinthians 14:35 Cross References

XREF:

1 Corinthians 14:34 The women are to keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says.

1 Corinthians 14:36 Was it from you that the word of God first went forth? Or has it come to you only? (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

14:34,35 Let your woman keep silence in the churches. This, in view of other portions of the Scriptures, is confessedly a difficult passage. We have the same teaching in 1Ti 2:11,12. On the other hand, Deborah was a judge and a prophetess (Jud 4:4); Huldah was a prophetess (1Ki 22:14); Joel predicted that in the Christian dispensation the sons and 'daughters' should prophesy (Joe 2:28), and Peter declared that this was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost (Ac 2:4). In addition, the daughters of Philip prophesied (Ac 21:9), and Paul gives directions concerning women prophesying in 1Co 11:5. Probably these apparent discrepancies may be reconciled as follows: (1) Paul's prohibition of speaking to the women is in the churches; that is, in the church assemblies when the whole church is come together into one place (1Co 14:23). It is an official meeting of the church. Church in the New Testament always means the ecclesia. It does not apply to such informal meetings as the social or prayer-meetings, but to formal gatherings of the whole body. (2) It may be that even this prohibition was due to the circumstances that existed in Ephesus, where Timothy was, and in Corinth, and would not apply everywhere. If so, it applies wherever similar circumstances exist, but not elsewhere. Both were Greek churches. Among the Greeks public women were disreputable. For a woman to speak in public would cause the remark that she was shameless. Virtuous women were secluded. Hence it would be a shame for women to speak in the church assembly. It is noteworthy that there is no hint of such a prohibition to any churches except Grecian. Wherever it would be shameful, women ought not to speak.

WES:

14:35 And even if they desire to learn anything - Still they are not to speak in public, but to ask their own husbands at home - That is the place, and those the persons to inquire of.

MHC:

14:34-40 When the apostle exhorts Christian women to seek information on religious subjects from their husbands at home, it shows that believing families ought to assemble for promoting spiritual knowledge. The Spirit of Christ can never contradict itself; and if their revelations are against those of the apostle, they do not come from the same Spirit. The way to keep peace, truth, and order in the church, is to seek that which is good for it, to bear with that which is not hurtful to its welfare, and to keep up good behaviour, order, and decency.

CONC:

Anything Assembly Chatter Church Desire Disgraceful Home Husbands Improper Inquire Learn Married Privately Puts Question Questions Shame Shameful Speak Talking Wish Women

Assembly Chatter Church Desire Disgraceful Home Husbands Improper Inquire Learn Married Privately Puts Questions Shame Shameful Something Speak Talking Want Wish Women

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