1 Corinthians 11:1-16 - Concerning Head Coverings In Worship

¹ Be ye then imitators of me, as I also am of Christ.

² Now I commend you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. ³ But I would have you know that Christ is the head of every man; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. ⁴ Every man praying or prophesying, having a veil on his head, dishonoureth Him who is his head. ⁵ But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoureth man her head; for it is even all one as if she were shaved. ⁶ For if a woman be not covered, she may as well be shorn: but if it be shameful to a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

⁷ For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, he being the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. ⁸ For the man was not of the woman; but the woman was taken out of the man: ⁹ nor was the man created for the sake of the woman, but the woman for the man. ¹⁰ For this reason ought the woman to have power on her head, because of the angels. ¹¹ Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord. ¹² For as the woman was originally from the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are from God.

¹³ Judge in yourselves, Is it decent for a woman to pray to God uncovered? ¹⁴ Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a disgrace to him? ¹⁵ but if a woman have long hair it is a glory to her; because the hair was given her as for a veil. ¹⁶ But if any one is pleased to contend for the contrary, I answer, We have no such custom, nor any of the churches of God.