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

¹ Be followers of me as I also am of Christ.

² I COMMEND you, brothers, that you have remembered all my [instructions], and that you retain the traditions as I delivered them to you. ³ But I wish you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman, the man, and the head of Christ, God. ⁴ Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered disgraces his head. ⁵ But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered disgraces her head; for it is one and the same as if she was shaved. ⁶ For if a woman is not veiled then let her hair be cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off, or to be shaved, let her wear a veil.

⁷ For a man ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory of God; but the woman is a glory of man. ⁸ For man is not of woman, but woman of man; ⁹ for man also was not created because of the woman, but woman because of the man. ¹⁰ For this reason ought the woman to have a power [veil] on her head because of the angels. ¹¹ But neither is woman without man, nor man without woman in the Lord; ¹² for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, but all things are from God.

¹³ Judge of yourselves; is it becoming that a woman should pray to God unveiled? ¹⁴ Does not nature herself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace to him? ¹⁵ but if a woman wears long hair it is her glory; for the hair is given her for a covering. ¹⁶ But if any one is disposed to be contentious, we have no such custom neither have the churches of God.