1 Corinthians 11:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

Isaiah 52:13

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

Isaiah 55:4

Behold, 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 go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.

1 Corinthians 3:23

and you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

Ephesians 4:15

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to 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 first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent.

Colossians 2:10

and you have come to fulness of life in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.

Colossians 2:19

and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, 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

Likewise you wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that some, though they do not obey the word, may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,