VERSE STUDY • KJV

1 Corinthians 11:9

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

Read it in 5 translations

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

Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.

for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man:

for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;

6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

7 For 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.

8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

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

10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on [her] head because of the angels.

11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

12 For as the woman [is] of the man, even so [is] the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

Put Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Calvin, Wesley, Barnes, Jamieson–Fausset–Brown, Aquinas’ Catena and other public-domain sources beside the passage.