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 greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
• Col 1:18He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
• 1 Cor 3:23and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
• Col 3:18Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
• Eph 4:15but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
• 1 Pet 3:5–6For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
• Eph 5:22–24Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
• Col 2:19and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
• 1 Tim 2:11–12Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.
• 1 Pet 3:1In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;
• Phil 2:7–11but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
• Eph 1:20–23which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
• Col 2:10and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
• 1 Cor 15:27–28For, “He put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when he says, “All things are put in subjection”, it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.
• John 14:28You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.
• John 3:34–36For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
• Isa 55:4Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.
• Isa 52:13Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.
• John 5:20–30For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
• John 17:2–5even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
• Isa 61:1–4The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• Isa 49:3–6He said to me, “You are my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
• Matt 28:18Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

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