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NASB | 1 Corinthians 11:3 But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 11:3 But I want you to understand that Christ is the head (authority over) of every man, and man is the head of woman, and God is the head of Christ. |
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Bible Note: Hi, justme! The word “obey” may not have been transcribed from the original text but the phrase “subject to” and the idea of subordination (this of course according to God’s Way not ours) has been in several Biblical versions: Ephesians 5:22, 23, 24 Wives should be subject to their husbands as to the Lord, since, as Christ is head of the Church and saves the whole body, so is a husband head of his wife; and as the Church is subject to Christ, so should wives be to their husbands, in everything. It is common sense to think of the phrase “subject to” as: depending on or abiding in, etc… As I was typing my response the term “obey” happened to jump into the frame of thought and while the phrasing may not have been “politically correct,“ nonetheless, it is supported by the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: 2subject 1: owing obedience or allegiance to the power or domination of another This terminology, of course, does not mean that woman is subject to the whims of man. The Scripture is very precise, though somewhat confusing and ambiguous at times (yes, it is an oxymoron): the woman is subject to her husband while the man is to love his wife as he loves himself, even to the point of forfeiting his life to protect and serve his wife!: Ephesians 5:25, 33 Husbands should love their wives, just as Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself for her To sum up: you also, each one of you, must love his wife as he loves himself… And equality comes not from the woman usurping the man’s authority, but from God Himself!: 1 Corinthians 11:11-12 However, in the Lord, though woman is nothing without man, man is nothing without woman; and though woman came from man, so does every man come from a woman, and everything comes from God. We are equal in the Lord; yet, in matter of authority, God has made a clear pronouncement: 1 Corinthians 11:3 But I should like you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. Please, do not be offended by definitions of words… and do not seek to find every single thought and word expressly transcribed (or is the catch word “transliterated?”) in the Bible. We lose so much when we indulge in disputes over semantics or origins of words or grammatical accidents or transliterations… Do we know with unequivocal exactness if our Lord spoke in only one language (Aramaic) or did He expressed Himself in the various languages of His environment (Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin…)? We should strive to obey our Lord’s command by being obedient to the Word, even when we think it is outdated or if some parts of it seem no longer fashionable! I leave you Peace--our Lord’s! God Bless! Angel |