Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says — textually and theologically complex: Paul restricts women's public prophetic utterance. The context likely involves disruptive questioning in corporate worship, a breach of Greco-Roman honor-shame codes. Whether Paul or a later editor wrote this, it must be read within its patriarchal context.

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