Verse 3

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:16 : 16 Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband `is' thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'
  • 1 Cor 3:23 : 23 and ye `are' Christ's, and Christ `is' God's.
  • Col 1:18 : 18 And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all `things' -- himself -- first,
  • Eph 4:15 : 15 and, being true in love, we may increase to Him `in' all things, who is the head -- the Christ;
  • Col 2:19 : 19 and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God.
  • Col 3:18 : 18 The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;
  • 1 Tim 2:11-12 : 11 Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection, 12 and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,
  • 1 Pet 3:1 : 1 In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,
  • 1 Pet 3:5-6 : 5 for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands, 6 as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him `sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.
  • Eph 5:22-24 : 22 The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, 23 because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ `is' head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body, 24 but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also `are' the wives to their own husbands in everything.
  • Phil 2:7-9 : 7 but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made, 8 and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death -- death even of a cross, 9 wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that `is' above every name, 10 that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow -- of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth -- 11 and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ `is' Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  • Col 2:10 : 10 and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,
  • 1 Cor 15:27-28 : 27 for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, `it is' evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him, 28 and when the all things may be subjected to him, then the Son also himself shall be subject to Him, who did subject to him the all things, that God may be the all in all.
  • Eph 1:20-23 : 20 which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set `him' at His right hand in the heavenly `places', 21 far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one; 22 and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly, 23 which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,
  • John 14:28 : 28 ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.
  • John 17:2-5 : 2 according as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that -- all that Thou hast given to him -- he may give to them life age-during; 3 and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ; 4 I did glorify Thee on the earth, the work I did finish that Thou hast given me, that I may do `it'. 5 `And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;
  • Isa 49:3-6 : 3 And He saith to me, `My servant Thou art, O Israel, In whom I beautify Myself.' 4 And I said, `For a vain thing I laboured, For emptiness and vanity my power I consumed, But my judgment `is' with Jehovah, And my wage with my God. 5 And now, said Jehovah, who is forming me from the belly for a servant to Him, To bring back Jacob unto Him, (Though Israel is not gathered, Yet I am honoured in the eyes of Jehovah, And my God hath been my strength.) 6 And He saith, `It hath been a light thing That thou art to Me for a servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And the preserved of Israel to bring back, And I have given thee for a light of nations, To be My salvation unto the end of the earth.'
  • Isa 52:13 : 13 Lo, My servant doth act wisely, He is high, and hath been lifted up, And hath been very high.
  • Isa 55:4 : 4 Lo, a witness to peoples I have given him, A leader and commander to peoples.
  • Isa 61:1-4 : 1 The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah `is' on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands. 2 To proclaim the year of the good pleasure of Jehovah, And the day of vengeance of our God, To comfort all mourners. 3 To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, `Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah -- to be beautified.' 4 And they have built the wastes of old, The desolations of the ancients they raise up, And they have renewed waste cities, The desolations of generation and generation.
  • Matt 28:18 : 18 And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;
  • John 3:34-36 : 34 for he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit; 35 the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand; 36 he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'
  • John 5:20-30 : 20 for the Father doth love the Son, and doth shew to him all things that He himself doth; and greater works than these He will shew him, that ye may wonder. 21 `For, as the Father doth raise the dead, and doth make alive, so also the Son doth make alive whom he willeth; 22 for neither doth the Father judge any one, but all the judgment He hath given to the Son, 23 that all may honour the Son according as they honour the Father; he who is not honouring the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him. 24 `Verily, verily, I say to you -- He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life. 25 `Verily, verily, I say to you -- There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live; 26 for, as the Father hath life in himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in himself, 27 and authority He gave him also to do judgment, because he is Son of Man. 28 `Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice, 29 and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment. 30 `I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.