1 Corinthians 11:3

Paul teaches an order of headship: Christ is head of every man, man is head of woman, and God is head of Christ. This frames his counsel on conduct in worship.

Cross-references · 23

• Gen 3:16To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
• Col 1:18And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
• 1 Cor 3:23and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
• Col 3:18Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
• Eph 4:15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
• 1 Pet 3:5–6For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands,
• Eph 5:22–24Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
• Col 2:19He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
• 1 Tim 2:11–12A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.
• 1 Pet 3:1Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives
• Phil 2:7–11but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.
• Eph 1:20–23which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,
• Col 2:10And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
• 1 Cor 15:27–28For “God has put everything under His feet.” Now when it says that everything has been put under Him, this clearly does not include the One who put everything under Him.
• John 14:28You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.
• John 3:34–36For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.
• Isa 55:4Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander of the peoples.
• Isa 52:13Behold, My Servant will prosper; He will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.
• John 5:20–30The Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does. And to your amazement, He will show Him even greater works than these.
• John 17:2–5For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
• Isa 61:1–4The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
• Isa 49:3–6He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel, in whom I will display My glory.”
• Matt 28:18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

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