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1 Corinthians 11:3

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.

KJV

θέλω δὲ ὑμᾶς εἰδέναι ὅτι παντὸς ἀνδρὸς ἡ κεφαλὴ ὁ Χριστός ἐστιν, κεφαλὴ δὲ γυναικὸς ὁ ἀνήρ, κεφαλὴ δὲ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ὁ θεός.

Greek NT

Volo autem vos scire quod omnis viri caput, Christus est : caput autem mulieris, vir : caput vero Christi, Deus.

Vulgate

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.

ASV

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.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἴδω
eido
verb · 317×
θέλω
thelo
verb · 208×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
κεφαλή
kephale
noun · 75×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

trivial
SBLGNT: τοῦ | WH/Treg/NIV: τοῦ
  • τοῦSBLGNT
  • τοῦWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to His revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice. For who can deny but it repugneth to nature that the blind shall be appointed to lead and con…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 3:23 — And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.
  • 1Cor 3:23 — And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.
  • 1Cor 6:15 — Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
  • 1Cor 11:7 — For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
  • 1Cor 14:34 — Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
  • 1Cor 15:27 — For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
  • 1Cor 15:28 — And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
  • 1Pet 3:1 — Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
  • 1Pet 3:1 — Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
  • 1Pet 3:5 — For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
  • 1Tim 2:11 — Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
  • 1Tim 2:11 — Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
  • Col 1:18 — And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
  • Col 1:18 — And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
  • Col 2:10 — And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
  • Col 2:19 — And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
  • Col 3:18 — Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
  • Col 3:18 — Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
  • Eph 1:20 — Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
  • Eph 1:22 — And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
  • Eph 4:15 — But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
  • Eph 5:22 — Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
  • Eph 5:23 — For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
  • Gen 3:16 — Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
  • Gen 3:16 — Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
  • John 14:28 — Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
  • Num 30:13 — Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
  • Phil 2:7 — But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
  • Titus 2:5 — To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.