1 Corinthians 11:3
So I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ. But the head of woman is man. Yet truly, the head of Christ is God.
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In Context
4Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered disgraces his head.
Cross References
Genesis 3:16To the woman, he also said: “I will multiply your labors and your conceptions. In pain shall you give birth to sons, and you shall be under your husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over you.”
Isaiah 52:13Behold, my servant will understand; he will be exalted and lifted up, and he will be very sublime.
Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the meek, so as to heal the contrite of heart, to preach leniency to captives and release to the confined,
John 3:34For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God. For God does not give the Spirit by measure.
John 14:28You have heard that I said to you: I am going away, and I am returning to you. If you loved me, certainly you would be gladdened, because I am going to the Father. For the Father is greater than I.
1 Corinthians 3:23But you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 11:2-17
Directions Concerning Attire; Female Subjection. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. 3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. 5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head… Read the whole commentary →