1 Corinthians 11:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. ”

• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  But if any man seem to be contentious - The sense of this passage is probably this: “If any man, any teacher, or others, “is disposed” to be strenuous about this, or to make it a matter of diffic...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (13) But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. (13) Against those who are stubbornly contentious we have to oppose this, that the churches of God ar...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  1 Corinthians 11:2-16 . Women must be Veiled in the Christian Assemblies. It is not clear whether this subject was discussed in the church letter. Paul begins, in a way that surprises us after hi...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  any man . any one. App-123. contentious . fond of strife. Greek. philoneikos. Only here. custom . See John 18:39 . neither . Greek. oude. churches . App-186.

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  16. But if any man seem A contentious person is one whose humor inclines him to stir up disputes, and does not care what becomes of the truth. Of this description are all who, without any...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. But if any man seem to be contentious - Ει δε τις δοκει φιλονεικος ειναι· If any person sets himself up as...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  But if any man seem to be, &c.— Be, or is disposed to be, &c. "If any one, from a love of disputing, or from his own different views of what is naturally decent, should controvert w...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. A summary by appeal to the universal custom of the churches. If any man seem - `thinks' (fit) х...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Disorders In Worship 2-16. (c) The Veiling of Women in Church 2. Now I praise you] This v. introduces the two following sections. The Apostle begins by praising them, perhaps echoing words from...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  But if any man seem to be contentious. — The argument, and the appeal to their own good sense having been completed, the Apostle now adds that if, after all, some one continues to argue the matter...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 16 THE VEIL AT this point of the Epistle Paul passes from the topics regarding which the Corinthians had requested him to inform them, to make some remarks on the manner in which, as he h...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Unity and Order in Public Assembly 1 Corinthians 11:11-22 The power on a woman's head in 1 Corinthians 11:10 probably refers to the veil or covering which the Grecian woman assumed at marri...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Another Corinthian question concerned the position of woman and her true attitude in the exercise of divinely bestowed gifts. He declared that woman's true position is subservience to man. The nature...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. (2) Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. (3) But I would have yo...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But if any man seem to be contentious ,.... That is, if anyone will not be satisfied with reasons given, for men's praying and prophesying with their heads uncovered, and women's praying and prophes...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. Ver. 16. Seem to be contentious ] A doctore glorioso, et pastore contentioso, et inutilibus questionib...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Judge in yourselves For what need of more arguments in so plain a case? Is it comely Decent, suitable to female modesty; that a woman pray unto God The Most High, with that bold and undaunted a...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Chapter s 11 to 14 no longer consider the question of testimony or conduct as before the world, but rather the conduct, order, unity that is becoming in the Assembly, the body of Christ. Yet this is...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Directions Concerning Attire; Female Subjection. A. D.  57.       1 Be ye followers of me, even as I...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  If any man seem to be contentious; if any man hath a mind to quarrel out of a love to show his wit in discoursing what may be said on the other side, or out of a desire to hold up a party, and cont...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Status of Men and Women in Ministry When Prophesying and Praying Is To Be Expressed In The Covering or Uncovering of the Head (11:2-16). This question is of great importance in the church, bec...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES [ 1 Corinthians 11:1 belongs to chap. 10, where see. Evans (in Speaker ), Stanley, and others divide this chapter at 1 Corinthians 11:16 , not 1 Corinthians 11:17 , making 1 Co...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Corinthians 11:2 . Keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. The apostle mentions these twice to the Thessalonians, and nearly in the same words. 2 Thessalonians 2:15 ; 2 Thessalonians...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of every woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. Christ our Head This important statement is the starting-p...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 11:1 Followers of me; rather, imitators of me; follow herein my example, as I follow Christ's. What Christ's example was, in that he too "pleased not himself,"...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The natural sense of propriety supports the apostle:

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 14:33 ; 1 Corinthians 14:34 ; 1 Corinthians 16:1 ; 1 Corinthians 7:17 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:14 ; 1 Timothy 6:3 ; 1 Timothy 6:4 ; Acts 21:21 ; Acts 21:24

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• 1 Corinthians 11:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  We have no such custom here, nor any of the other churches of God — The several churches that were in the apostles' time had different customs in things that were not essential; and that under one...

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