1 Corinthians 11:7

Geneva Bible (1560)

For a man ought not to couer his head: for as much as he is the image & glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

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  • 1 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I wil that ye know, that Christ is the head of euery man: and the man is the womans head: and God is Christs head.
  • Jas 3:9 : 9 Therewith blesse we God euen the Father, and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
  • Gen 5:1 : 1 This is the booke of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created Adam, in the likenes of God made he him,
  • Gen 9:6 : 6 Who so sheadeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God hath he made man.
  • Ps 8:6 : 6 Thou hast made him to haue dominion in the workes of thine hands: thou hast put all things vnder his feete:
  • Gen 1:26-27 : 26 Furthermore God said, Let vs make man in our image according to our likenes, and let them rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, and ouer the beastes, and ouer all the earth, and ouer euery thing that creepeth and moueth on the earth. 27 Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them male and female.
  • Gen 3:16 : 16 Vnto the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy sorowes, and thy conceptions. In sorowe shalt thou bring foorth children, and thy desire shalbe subiect to thine husbande, and he shall rule ouer thee.

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  • 1 Cor 11:3-6
    4 verses
    87%

    3But I wil that ye know, that Christ is the head of euery man: and the man is the womans head: and God is Christs head.

    4Euery man praying or prophecying hauing any thing on his head, dishonoureth his head.

    5But euery woman that prayeth or prophecieth bare headed, dishonoureth her head: for it is euen one very thing, as though she were shauen.

    6Therefore if the woman be not couered, let her also be shorne: and if it be shame for a woman to be shorne or shauen, let her be couered.

  • 1 Cor 11:8-16
    9 verses
    84%

    8For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.

    9For the man was not created for the womans sake: but the woman for the mans sake.

    10Therefore ought the woman to haue power on her head, because of the Angels.

    11Neuertheles, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord.

    12For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman: but all things are of God.

    13Iudge in your selues, Is it comely that a woman pray vnto God vncouered?

    14Doeth not nature it selfe teach you, that if a man haue long heare, it is a shame vnto him?

    15But if a woman haue long heare, it is a prayse vnto her: for her heare is giuen her for a couering.

    16But if any man lust to be contentious, we haue no such custome, neither the Churches of God.

  • Eph 5:22-24
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    22Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as vnto the Lord.

    23For the husband is the wiues head, euen as Christ is the head of the Church, and the same is the sauiour of his body.

    24Therfore as the Church is in subiection to Christ, euen so let the wiues be to their husbads in euery thing.

  • 1 Tim 2:11-14
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    11Let the woman learne in silence with all subiection.

    12I permit not a woman to teache, neither to vsurpe authoritie ouer the man, but to be in silence.

    13For Adam was first formed, then Eue.

    14And Adam was not deceiued, but the woman was deceiued, and was in the transgression.

  • 1 Tim 2:9
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    9Likewise also the women, that they aray themselues in comely apparell, with shamefastnes and modestie, not with broyded heare, or gold, or pearles, or costly apparell,

  • 1 Cor 7:1-4
    4 verses
    71%

    1Nowe concerning the thinges whereof ye wrote vnto mee, It were good for a man not to touche a woman.

    2Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.

    3Let the husbande giue vnto the wife due beneuolence, and likewise also the wife vnto the husband.

    4The wife hath not the power of her owne bodie, but ye husband: & likewise also the husband hath not ye power of his own body, but the wife.

  • 1 Cor 14:34-36
    3 verses
    71%

    34Let your women keepe silence in the Churches: for it is not permitted vnto them to speake: but they ought to be subiect, as also the Lawe sayth.

    35And if they will learne any thing, let them aske their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speake in the Church.

    36Came the worde of God out from you? either came it vnto you onely?

  • 1 Pet 3:3-5
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    3Whose apparelling, let it not be that outwarde, with broyded heare, and golde put about, or in putting on of apparell:

    4But let it bee the hidde man of the heart, which consisteth in the incorruption of a meeke and quiet spirite, which is before God a thing much set by.

    5For euen after this maner in time past did the holy women, which trusted in God, tire them selues, and were subiect to their husbands.

  • Gen 1:27
    69%

    27Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them male and female.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
    67%

    16For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt saue thine husband? Or what knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt saue thy wife?

  • 1 Cor 7:34-35
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    34There is difference also betweene a virgine and a wife: the vnmaried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirite: but shee that is maried, careth for the things of the worlde, howe shee may please her husband.

    35And this I speake for your owne commoditie, not to tangle you in a snare, but that yee followe that, which is honest, and that yee may cleaue fast vnto the Lord without separation.

  • 1 Pet 3:7
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    7Likewise ye husbands, dwel with them as men of knowledge, giuing honour vnto the woman, as vnto the weaker vessell, euen as they which are heires together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not interrupted.

  • 1 Cor 7:11
    67%

    11But and if shee depart, let her remaine vnmaried, or be reconciled vnto her husband, & let not the husband put away his wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:7
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    7For I woulde that all men were euen as I my selfe am: but euery man hath his proper gift of God, one after this maner, and another after that.

  • 2 Cor 10:17
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    17But let him that reioyceth, reioyce in the Lorde.

  • Gen 2:23
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    23Then the man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man.

  • Deut 22:5
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    5The woman shal not weare that which perteineth vnto the man, neither shal a man put on womans rayment: for all that doe so, are abomination vnto the Lord thy God.

  • Mark 10:7
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    7For this cause shall man leaue his father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife.

  • Eph 5:27-28
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    27That hee might make it vnto him selfe a glorious Church, not hauing spot or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it shoulde bee holy and without blame.

    28So ought men to loue their wiues, as their owne bodies: he that loueth his wife, loueth him selfe.

  • 1 Cor 1:31
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    31That, according as it is written, Hee that reioyceth, let him reioyce in the Lord.

  • Prov 4:9
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    9She shal giue a comely ornamet vnto thine head, yea, she shal giue thee a crowne of glorie.

  • 2 Cor 3:10
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    10For euen that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point, that is, as touching the exceeding glorie.

  • 1 Cor 3:21
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    21Therefore let no man reioyce in men: for all things are yours.

  • 1 Cor 15:47
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    47The first man is of the earth, earthly: the second man is the Lord from heauen.

  • Prov 12:4
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    4A vertuous woman is the crowne of her husband: but she that maketh him ashamed, is as corruption in his bones.