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1 Corinthians 14:34

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Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

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Contradictions (2)

Questions where the Bible appears to say two different things, with the passages on each side set together.

  • Can women be church leaders?

    Acts 18:26 has Priscilla (with her husband Aquila) instructing Apollos in "the way of God" — a clear example of a woman exercising teaching authority in the early church. 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 commands that women keep silent in the churches and not speak; 1 Timothy 2:11-12 prohibits women from teaching or having authority over a man.

    Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.

    Law & ethics

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  • Do women have rights?

    The contradiction sets the silencing-and-subordination passages — Genesis 3:16 (the husband rules over the wife as curse), 1 Timothy 2:12 (woman may not teach or have authority), 1 Corinthians 14:34 (women keep silence in the churches), 1 Peter 3:6 (Sarah as model of calling her husband lord) — against texts that show women exercising public religious and political authority: Deborah the prophetess judging Israel (Judges 4:4, 14-15; 5:7), the Joel/Acts 2:18 promise of women prophesying, and Philip's four daughters who prophesied (Acts 21:9). The same canon both denies women teaching authority and celebrates women exercising it.

    Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.

    Law & ethics

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