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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. |
Bible Question:
Okay I'll bite! Schwartzkm, what is your idea? Ed |
Bible Answer: I believe if in one place Paul is telling women it is all right to speak in the church (1 Cor 10-14 deal with order in the worship service: communion, role of women in the church; gifts of the spirit etc.) and in another place he is completly forbidding them he must have been addressing a specific situation. I am not exactly sure (and if somebody claims to have the answer they are really not being truthful) what it was that caused Paul to issue this statement. I tend to lend towards dis-orderly comment/questions directed towards their husbands in service. But I would not argue this point because the scripture is silent. The one thing that disturbs me about this whole process, is I ahve never, never, never seen a church practice what I have seen posted on this forum. Every church I have been into allows their women to speak in the church and their women do not even wear hats on their heads. If they really beleived what they are spouting off on this message board, there would be a gag order. Women would not be allowed to speak at all in church. And, sad to say, the children would suffer the most. |