1 Corinthians 11:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

1 Corinthians 11:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 2:18
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Genesis 2:23-24
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. …
Genesis 2:20
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

7-9. Argument, also, from man’s more immediate relation to God, and the woman’s to man. he is ... image ... glory of God--being created in God’s “image,” first and directly: the woman, subsequently, and indirectly, through the mediation of man. Man is the representative of God’s “glory” this ideal of man being realized most fully in the Son of man (Psa 8:4, 5; compare 2Co 8:23). Man is declared in…