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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 keep silent in the churches" |
Bible Note: That is something else I am wondering (not as in 'wondering' per se but as in awe of) about with the Bible. So many people with so many different ideas of how to interpret this verse or that, yet they still get to the same central idea or meaning of the verse. I look and v16 in Gen 3 and see the same words you do and I read them much like (as an example) 'you add the yeast to the dough and set it aside, and it will rise'-- the dough will rise BECAUSE I have added yeast and set it aside. 'I will desire and crave my husband, and he will over me'--I will be ruled by my husband BECAUSE I desire and crave him. Yet we both reached the same point: somebody has to have the final say, and God has determined that it's the husband (or the father--or in our day of single parents, the mother). I heard John Davidson on TV years ago say that his wife was adored, cherished, put up on a pedastal, the Queen of his life--but she could never be King. I laughed at that time and wondered if he realized he was being completely Biblical. This is just such an awesome book. Look how it tells us to fellowship with other Christians. If I didn't obey that I wouldn't have ever thought about your point that Jesus never had to order the wives to love their husbands. You give me much to pray about and consider, and all of it valuable. Thank you very much. Melanie |