1 Corinthians 11:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 Neither was man created for the sake of woman but woman for the sake of man.(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 2:18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.”(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 2:23-24
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
23 Then the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
this one shall be called Woman,
for out of Man this one was taken.”(A)
24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.(B)
Read full chapter
Genesis 2:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 The man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every animal of the field, but for the man[a] there was not found a helper as his partner.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 2.20 Or for Adam
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.