10 [a]Therefore ought the woman to have [b]power on her head, because of the [c]Angels.

11 [d]Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man [e]in the Lord.

12 For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman: but all things are of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 11:10 The conclusion: Women must be covered, to show by this external sign their subjection.
  2. 1 Corinthians 11:10 A covering which is a token of subjection.
  3. 1 Corinthians 11:10 What this meaneth, I do not yet understand.
  4. 1 Corinthians 11:11 A digression which the Apostle useth, lest that which he spake of the superior tie of men, and the lower degrees of women in consideration of the policy of the Church, should be so taken as though there were no measure of this inequality. Therefore he teacheth that men have in such sort the preeminence, that God made them not alone, but women also: and woman was so made of man, that men also are born by the means of women, and this ought to put them in mind to observe the degree of every sex, in such sort that mutual conjunction may be cherished.
  5. 1 Corinthians 11:11 By the Lord.

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