1 Corinthians 11:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ Neither was man created for the sake of woman but woman for the sake of man.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Neither was man created on account of or for the benefit of woman, but woman on account of and for the benefit of man. [Gen. 2:18.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man:

Common English Bible

⁹ and man wasn’t created for the sake of the woman, but the woman for the sake of the man.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And indeed, man was not created for woman, but woman was created for man.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ For the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

1 Corinthians 11:9 Cross References

Genesis 2:18

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.”

Genesis 2:20

The man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every animal of the field, but for the man there was not found a helper as his partner.

Genesis 2:22

And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

1 Corinthians 11:10

For this reason a woman ought to have authority over her head, because of the angels.