1 Corinthians 11:3 BSB

Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Θέλω	Thelō	I want	G2309 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
ὑμᾶς	humas	you	G4771 →
εἰδέναι	eidenai	to know
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
παντὸς	pantos	of every	G3956 →
ἀνδρὸς	andros	man	G435 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
κεφαλὴ	kephalē	head	G2776 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Χριστός	Christos	Christ	G5547 →
ἐστιν,	estin	is,	G1510 →
κεφαλὴ	kephalē	[the] head	G2776 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
γυναικὸς	gunaikos	of [the] woman [is]	G1135 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
ἀνήρ·	anēr	man;	G435 →
κεφαλὴ	kephalē	[the] head	G2776 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
Χριστοῦ	Christou	of Christ	G5547 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
θεός.¶	theos	God.	G2316 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Colossians 1:18
And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
leads to
- Ephesians 1:22–23
  And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
- Revelation 1:5
  and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by…
Through
Ephesians 4:15
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
leads to
- 1 John 3:18
  Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
- Ephesians 4:25
  Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
- Zechariah 8:16
  These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
- 1 Peter 1:22
  Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
Through
Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
leads to
- Titus 2:5
  to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.
- Colossians 3:18
  Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Genesis 3:16To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”Colossians 1:18And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.Colossians 3:18Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.1 Corinthians 3:23and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.Ephesians 4:15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.1 Corinthians 14:34Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.1 Timothy 2:11A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.1 Corinthians 11:7A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.1 Peter 3:5–6For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands,Colossians 2:19He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.Ephesians 5:22–24Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.1 Timothy 2:11–12A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.1 Peter 3:1Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives Philippians 2:7–11but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.1 Corinthians 15:28And when all things have been subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will be made subject to Him who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all.Ephesians 1:22And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,Ephesians 1:20–23which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,1 Corinthians 6:15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

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