7For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
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But 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.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. …
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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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