1 Corinthians 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.
KJV
ἀνὴρ μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ὀφείλει κατακαλύπτεσθαι τὴν κεφαλήν, εἰκὼν καὶ δόξα θεοῦ ὑπάρχων· ἡ γυνὴ δὲ δόξα ἀνδρός ἐστιν.
Greek NT
Vir quidem non debet velare caput suum : quoniam imago et gloria Dei est, mulier autem gloria viri est.
Vulgate
For a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
ASV
The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δόξα
doxa
noun · 166×
εἰκών
eikon
noun · 23×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατακαλύπτω
katakalupto
verb · 3×
κεφαλή
kephale
noun · 75×
μέν
men
particle · 177×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ὀφείλω
opheilo
verb · 35×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑπάρχω
uparcho
verb · 60×
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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Gen 1:27 · paraphrase"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."Genesis: man is the image and glory of God — Paul on head coverings
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ἡ | WH/Treg/NIV: ἡ
- ἡ — SBLGNT
- ἡ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
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Doctrines that cite this verse
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. Having finished therefore all the discourses concerning all these things, he next proceeds also to another accusation. And what was this? Their women used both to pray and prophesy unveiled and with their head bare, (for then women also used to prophesy;) but the men went so far as to wear long hair as having spent their time in philosophy , and covered their heads when pray…
30. First, the Son appears rather to have been for us brought to be, than we for Him; for we were not created for Him, but He is made for us ; so that He owes thanks to us, not we to Him, as the woman to the man. 'For the man,' says Scripture, 'was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.' Therefore, as 'the man is the image and glory of God, and the woman the glor…
20. Again, when the Bishops said that the Word must be described as the True Power and Image of the Father, in all things exact and like the Father, and as unalterable, and as always, and as in Him without division (for never was the Word not, but He was always, existing everlastingly with the Father, as the radiance of light), Eusebius and his fellows endured indeed, as not da…
Is the image of God in man? Is the image of God in irrational creatures? Is the image of God in the angels more than in man? Is the image of God in every man? Is the image of God in man by comparison with the Essence, or with all the Divine Persons, or with one of them? Is the image of God in man, as to his mind only? Is the image of God in man's power or in his habits and acts…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 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.
- 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.
- Gen 1:26 — And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
- Gen 1:26 — And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
- Gen 1:27 — So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- Gen 2:18 — And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
- 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 5:1 — This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
- Gen 5:1 — This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
- Gen 9:6 — Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
- Jas 3:9 — Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
- Prov 12:4 — A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
- Ps 8:6 — Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: