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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34-36 Wives must not disrupt worship, talking when they should be listening, asking questions that could more appropriately be asked of their husbands at home. God’s Book of the law guides our manners and customs here. Wives have no license to use the time of worship for unwarranted speaking. Do you—both women and men—imagine that you’re a sacred oracle determining what’s right and wrong? Do you think everything revolves around you?

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35 If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 14:35 In a few manuscripts these verses come after verse 40.