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34 Women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak but should be subordinate, as the law also says.(A)

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The Christian Household

22 Wives, be subject[a] to your husbands as to the Lord,(A) 23 for the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.(B) 24 Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.

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  1. 5.22 Gk lacks be subject

11 Let a woman[a] learn in silence with full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman[b] to teach or to have authority over a man;[c] she is to keep silent. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve,(A) 14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.(B) 15 Yet she will be saved through childbearing, provided they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

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  1. 2.11 Or wife
  2. 2.12 Or wife
  3. 2.12 Or her husband