Bible Verses About Headship
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for headship, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 915 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 11:3. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Headship
1 Corinthians 11:382 votes
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
Ephesians 5:2340 votes
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Ephesians 5:22-3339 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:1-3438 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Galatians 3:2832 votes
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 5:2528 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Corinthians 11:8-927 votes
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
Ephesians 5:2227 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Genesis 2:2424 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:2123 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Hebrews 13:1723 votes
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Genesis 2:1821 votes
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Ephesians 5:3321 votes
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
1 Peter 3:721 votes
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Colossians 1:1819 votes
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Colossians 3:1819 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
1 Timothy 2:1-1519 votes
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
Genesis 1:2717 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
1 Timothy 3:217 votes
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Genesis 3:1616 votes
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Ephesians 5:2816 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Genesis 2:1-2514 votes
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
1 Corinthians 11:2-1614 votes
Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
1 Corinthians 11:714 votes
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
Ephesians 5:1-3314 votes
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
What does the Bible say about headship?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 11:3 on the subject of headship. Across 915 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:23, Ephesians 5:22-33, 1 Corinthians 11:1-34. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.