1 Corinthians 11:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ.

Cross References

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, “I will make your pangs in childbirth exceedingly great; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

Isaiah 52:13

See, my servant shall prosper; he shall be exalted and lifted up and shall be very high.

Isaiah 55:4

See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples.

Matthew 28:18

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

John 14:28

You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

1 Corinthians 3:23

and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

Ephesians 4:15

but speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Colossians 1:18

He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.

Colossians 2:10

and you have come to fullness in him, who is the head of every ruler and authority.

Colossians 2:19

and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, grows with a growth that is from God.

Colossians 3:18

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

1 Peter 3:1

Wives, in the same way, be subject to your husbands, so that, even if some of them do not obey the word, they may be won over without a word by their wives’ conduct,