What Does the Bible Say About Do Not Remain Silent?

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.

1 Corinthians 11:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven.

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”

1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

1 Timothy 2:11-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. ...

Acts 18:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

1 Timothy 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.

1 Corinthians 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

1 Corinthians 12:4-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, ...

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Joel 2:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

Titus 2:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

1 Timothy 2:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For Adam was formed first, then Eve;

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

1 Corinthians 14:35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

1 Corinthians 14:33-35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

1 Corinthians 14:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 11:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered?

Romans 16:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,

Acts 21:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied.

29 Bible Verses about Do Not Remain Silent

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Acts 18:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 12:4-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Joel 2:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 2:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 14:35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 14:33-35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 14:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 11:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 16:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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29 Bible Verses about Do Not Remain Silent

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1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Acts 18:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 12:4-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Joel 2:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Titus 2:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 2:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 14:35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 14:33-35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 14:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 11:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 16:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 21:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote