1 Corinthians 11:11-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 [a]Woman is not independent of man or man of woman in the Lord.(A) 12 For just as woman came from man, so man is born of woman; but all things are from God.(B)
13 [b]Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head unveiled?
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- 11:11–12 These parenthetical remarks relativize the argument from Gn 2–3. In the Lord: in the Christian economy the relation between the sexes is characterized by a mutual dependence, which is not further specified. And even in the natural order conditions have changed: the mode of origin described in Gn 2 has been reversed (1 Cor 11:12a). But the ultimately significant fact is the origin that all things have in common (1 Cor 11:12b).
- 11:13–16 The argument for conformity to common church practice is summed up and pressed home. 1 Cor 11:14–15 contain a final appeal to the sense of propriety that contemporary Greek society would consider “natural” (cf. 1 Cor 11:5–6).
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