3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
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Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)Paul, having answered the cases put to him, proceeds in this chapter to the redress of grievances. The Rom. 11:1 of the chapter is put, by those who divided the epistle into chapters, as a preface to the rest of the epistle, but seems to have been a more proper close to the last, in which he had enforced the cautions he had given against the abuse of liberty, by his own example: Be ye followers of…
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