1 Corinthians 11:9

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 2:18 : 18 The LORD God said,“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”
  • Gen 2:20 : 20 So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.
  • Gen 2:23-24 : 23 Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

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  • 1 Cor 11:3-8
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    3But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

    4Any man who prays or prophesies with his head covered disgraces his head.

    5But any woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for it is one and the same thing as having a shaved head.

    6For if a woman will not cover her head, she should cut off her hair. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, she should cover her head.

    7For a man should not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

    8For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.

  • 1 Cor 11:10-13
    4 verses
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    10For this reason a woman should have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

    11In any case, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

    12For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman. But all things come from God.

    13Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

  • 1 Tim 2:11-14
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    11A woman must learn quietly with all submissiveness.

    12But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man. She must remain quiet.

    13For Adam was formed first and then Eve.

    14And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, because she was fully deceived, fell into transgression.

  • Gen 2:20-25
    6 verses
    75%

    20So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.

    21So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.

    22Then the LORD God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

    23Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

    24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

    25The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.

  • Mark 10:6-9
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    6But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.

    7For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

    8and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

  • Gen 1:27
    73%

    27God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

  • Gen 2:18
    73%

    18The LORD God said,“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”

  • Matt 19:4-6
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    4He answered,“Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,

    5and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

    6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

  • 1 Cor 7:1-4
    4 verses
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    1Celibacy and Marriage Now with regard to the issues you wrote about:“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”

    2But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

    3A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

    4It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

  • 1 Cor 11:15-16
    2 verses
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    15but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

    16If anyone intends to quarrel about this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

  • Eph 5:22-24
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    22Exhortations to Households Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

    23because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church(he himself being the savior of the body).

    24But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

  • Rom 1:26
    68%

    26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

  • Gen 5:2
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    2He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them“humankind.”

  • Jer 31:22
    68%

    22How long will you vacillate, you who were once like an unfaithful daughter? For I, the LORD, promise to bring about something new on the earth, something as unique as a woman protecting a man!’”

  • Eph 5:31
    67%

    31For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 14:34-36
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    67%

    34the women should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. Rather, let them be in submission, as in fact the law says.

    35If they want to find out about something, they should ask their husbands at home, because it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

    36Did the word of God begin with you, or did it come to you alone?

  • Mark 2:27
    67%

    27Then he said to them,“The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
    66%

    5For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,

  • Gen 3:16
    65%

    16To the woman he said,“I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you.”

  • 1 Cor 15:47
    65%

    47The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.