1 Corinthians 14:34,35

1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 Corinthians 14:34 the women should keep silent in the churches. Since Paul seems to permit wives to pray and prophesy as long as they do not dishonor their husbands by the way they dress (1 Corinthians 11:5, 1 Corinthians 11:13), it is difficult to see this as an absolute prohibition of their speaking in church meetings (compare Acts 2:17; Acts 21:8). Paul is likely forbidding women to speak up and judge prophecies (this is the activity in the immediate context; see 1 Corinthians 14:29), since such an activity would undermine male headship. Law also says. Paul is probably thinking of the woman’s creation “from” and “for” the man (see 1 Corinthians 11:8; Genesis 2:20), as well as a general pattern of male leadership among the people of Israel in the OT.