Discovery Box1 Corinthians 7:29 
Context7:29 And I say this, brothers and sisters: 1 The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,
1 Corinthians 10:8
Context10:8 And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day. 2
1 Corinthians 14:34
Context14:34 the women 3 should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. 4 Rather, let them be in submission, as in fact the law says.
1 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.
2 sn This incident is recorded in Num 25:1-9.
3 tn The word for “woman” and “wife” is the same in Greek. Because of the reference to husbands in v. 35, the word may be translated “wives” here. But in passages governing conduct in church meetings like this (cf. 11:2-16; 1 Tim 2:9-15) the general meaning “women” is more likely.
4 sn For they are not permitted to speak. In light of 11:2-16, which gives permission for women to pray or prophesy in the church meetings, the silence commanded here seems not to involve the absolute prohibition of a woman addressing the assembly. Therefore (1) some take be silent to mean not taking an authoritative teaching role as 1 Tim 2 indicates, but (2) the better suggestion is to relate it to the preceding regulations about evaluating the prophets (v. 29). Here Paul would be indicating that the women should not speak up during such an evaluation, since such questioning would be in violation of the submission to male leadership that the OT calls for (the law, e.g., Gen 2:18).
