1 Corinthians 14:34 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:34-35

Women in the Church. I. WOMEN HAVE A PLACE IN THE CHURCH . Christianity exalts woman. It found her degraded; it ennobles her. In Christ there is neither male nor female ( Galatians 3:28 ). II. WOMEN HAVE MANY MINISTRIES CONNECTED WITH THE CHURCH . If excluded from some positions, how many are still open to woman! In not a few of these she is unrivalled by the other sex. If woman may not do some work, man cannot do other. Christianity has opened to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:34-35

Woman's place in Christian worship. Three points may be taken for due explanation and enforcement. I. The Eastern, Jewish, and pagan sentiments concerning the public position and relations of woman. II. The practical difficulties which arose when women were converted to Christianity, and became conscious of personal religious life, and the endowment of spiritual gifts. III. The ways in which St. Paul's teachings on this subject require to be modified in adaptation to Western... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 14:34

Let your women keep silence ... - This rule is positive, explicit, and universal. There is no ambiguity in the expressions; and there can be no difference of opinion, one would suppose, in regard to their meaning. The sense evidently is, that in all those things which he had specified, the women were to keep silence; they were to take no part. He had discoursed of speaking foreign languages, and of prophecy; and the evident sense is, that in regard to all these they were to keep silence, or... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 14:34-35

1 Corinthians 14:34-35. Let your women, &c. The last clause of the preceding verse is by some critics, and among the rest Bishop Pearce, joined with this, so as to make this sense; as in all the churches of the saints, let your women keep silence in the churches, namely, of Achaia. According to this reading, by the churches of the saints, are meant the churches of Judea, in which the public worship and discipline was most perfect, because they had been planted and regulated by the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:26-40

Order and upbuilding (14:26-40)At the meetings of the Corinthian church, the Christians came prepared to take part in the service in a variety of ways. The guiding rule was that everything was to be spiritually helpful (26). But confusion arose because several spoke in different tongues at the same time, often with no interpreter. Paul says that if no interpreter is present, they must keep quiet. Even if an interpreter is present, they must speak in turn, and then no more than two or three... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Corinthians 14:34

under obedience = subject, as in 1 Corinthians 14:32 . as also, &c . = as the law also saith. Reference is to Genesis 3:16 . Compare 1 Timothy 2:11-13 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 14:34

As in all the churches of the saints, let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.Before dealing with this as it may be applied in all generations, it should first be observed that the primary meaning has to be, "Do not let the women speak in tongues under any circumstances." This command comes right in the middle of an extensive treatise on tongue-speaking; and to blow this up to a universal law that no... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 14:34-35

1 Corinthians 14:34-35. Let your women keep silence— "As to your women, let them keep silence in your assemblies: for it is not permitted them to discourse there, or pretend to teach: that no way suits the state of subjection appointed them in the law. See Genesis 3:16. But if they have a mind to have any thing explained to them which passes in the church, let them, for their information, ask their husbands at home; for it is a shame for women to speak in the congregation." read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 14:34

34. (1 Timothy 2:11; 1 Timothy 2:12). For women to speak in public would be an act of independence, as if they were not subject to their husbands (compare 1 Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 5:22; Titus 2:5; 1 Peter 3:1). For "under obedience," translate, "in subjection" or "submission," as the Greek is translated (Ephesians 5:21; Ephesians 5:22; Ephesians 5:24). the law—a term applied to the whole Old Testament; here, Ephesians 5:24- :. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 14:26-40

5. The need for order 14:26-40The Corinthians’ public worship practices not only failed to be edifying and convicting, but they also involved disorderly conduct. Paul proceeded to deal with this additional need to help his readers value these qualities over the pseudo spirituality that they associated with glossolalia. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:34-35

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:34-35

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 14:34

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 14:34-35

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:26-40

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Corinthians 14:34

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 14:34

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 14:34-35

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 14:34

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 14:26-40

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