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NASB | 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. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 14:34 ¶ the women should be silent in the churches, for they are not authorized to speak, but are to take a subordinate place, as the Law says. |
Subject: Women speak in church? |
Bible Note: Thank you for your excellent observations. I woundn't consider your view chauvinistic at all. I like to think of the relationship between men and women in any relationship thus: the man is the head, and the woman is the neck; and note, the neck turns the head! Perhaps Paul is alluding to such a relationship, which we see throughout the Bible. My wife an I were married by a wonderful female pastor...yet I do think the Bible is quite clear that elders ought to be men. Men, with influential and contributing wives "turning their heads." |