11 Let a woman learn in silence with all submission.

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34 (A)Let [a]your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the (B)law also says. 35 And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for women to speak in church.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 14:34 NU omits your

Marriage—Christ and the Church(A)

22 Wives, (B)submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For (C)the husband is head of the wife, as also (D)Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands (E)in everything.

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But I want you to know that (A)the head of every man is Christ, (B)the head of woman is man, and (C)the head of Christ is God.

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Submission to Husbands

Wives, likewise, be (A)submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, (B)they, without a word, may (C)be won by the conduct of their wives,

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to be discreet, chaste, (A)homemakers, good, (B)obedient to their own husbands, (C)that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

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The Christian Home(A)

18 (B)Wives, submit to your own husbands, (C)as is fitting in the Lord.

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16 To the woman He said:

“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;
(A)In pain you shall bring forth children;
(B)Your desire shall be [a]for your husband,
And he shall (C)rule over you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:16 Lit. toward

For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, (A)calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror.

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20 When the king’s decree which he will make is proclaimed throughout all his empire (for it is great), all wives will (A)honor their husbands, both great and small.”

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