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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. |
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Bible Note: I think your logic is flawed because the Spirit keeps bringing me back to this sticky point. As it happens I happen to be a dutiful submissive wife and I do speak through my husband and ask my questions through my husband at church because the Spirit quite sternly brought me to this passage after a debate with my pastor in a Wednesday night study class he was leading. And in our church nobody expects or desires the women not to speak or question for themselves! But our pastor is young and is newly ordained and sometimes my questions would make him feel inadequate to answer them. They weren't harsh or argumentative, but they would just be a point he hadn't considered or studied. The man works a full time job to support his family and he pastors full time. He simply doesn't have the time to study that I do. When he does study a scripture or an issue though, the man is a lion. So don't picture him as an ineffectual or ignorant overseer. He's bright, articulate, and Godly. FILLED with the Spirit when he is preaching. Since he began our little church membership has doubled, so don't get the wrong idea about him. In any event, after that night the Spirit pulled me out of my normal schedule of reading and brought me to the 1Cor verse. It nearly broke my heart. But I obeied. Even though it's not the custom in our church as I said. And having obeied in Faith, the Spirit imparted to me the Wisdom that it had directed me to this Scripture for my pastor. Not as a slap against me. Though I did get some indications that I was also supposed to take some lesson in learning to accept rebuke. So I hope you see that I do not approach the Scripture based on what I do or do not want to believe. But having accepted the rebuke, and having obeied the Scripture, and gotten my heart right with it, and having left it behind....the Spirit has now brought me back to it. With the mind that your interpretation of it is not correct, or not entirely correct, or something. I don't have any set in stone conclusions yet because the lesson is on-going, but I do know that those who come at me with dogmatic, 'just memorize the book' persuasions and demands, are a trial to my right frame of mind. I have to pray doubly hard because I don't know if I'm digging in my heels because the Spirit wants me to or if it is just in reaction to religious spirits getting in my face! Hm. And I hadn't thought of your reference to the divorce. Interesting. And I know you are going to think I am being argumentative but what about Hosea? |