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33 for God[a] is not a God of disorder but of peace.

As[b] in all the churches of the saints, 34 the women must keep silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak out, but must place themselves in submission, as the oral[c] law also says. 35 If they want to learn anything, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is inappropriate for a woman to speak out in church.[d]

36 Did God’s word originate with you? Are you the only ones[e] it has reached?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 14:33 Lit. he
  2. 1 Corinthians 14:33 Or peace, as in all the churches of the saints. 34 The
  3. 1 Corinthians 14:34 The Gk. lacks oral
  4. 1 Corinthians 14:35 Other mss. place vv. 34 and 35 after v. 40.
  5. 1 Corinthians 14:36 The Gk. is a pl. masc. pronoun