1 Corinthians 11:11,12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Nevertheless, neither is the man, since the first creation, produced without the woman, neither the woman without the man And they cannot subsist without the mutual help of each other in many cases: in the Lord By God's appointment, and according to that order he has fixed in the creation. As if he had said, Yet let not the man be proud of his superiority, nor the woman troubled at her subjection, for there is a kind of equality in some respects, and many mutual obligations to engage them both to love and kindness. For as the woman is, or was, of the man At first taken out of him; even so is the man also by the woman Now in the ordinary course of nature: and therefore let him not despise, but honour and love her. But all things are of God The man, the woman, and their dependance on each other: or both the dominion of the one, and the subjection of the other, are by God's appointment, and therefore they should acquiesce therein.

1 Corinthians 11:11-12

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.