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

¹ Be imitators of me, in so far as I in turn am an imitator of Christ.

² Now I commend you for remembering me in everything, and because you hold fast truths and practices precisely as I have taught them to you. ³ I would have you know, however, that of every man, Christ is the Head, that of a woman her husband is the Head, and that God is Christ's Head. ⁴ A man who wears a veil when praying or prophesying dishonors his Head; ⁵ but a woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her Head, for it is exactly the same as if she had her hair cut short. ⁶ If a woman will not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair. But since it is a dishonor to a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her wear a veil.

⁷ For a man ought not to have a veil on his head, since he is the image and glory of God; while woman is the glory of man. ⁸ Man does not take his origin from woman, but woman takes hers from man. ⁹ For man was not created for woman's sake, but woman for man's. ¹⁰ That is why a woman ought to have on her head a symbol of subjection, because of the angels. ¹¹ Yet, in the Lord, woman is not independent of man nor man independent of woman. ¹² For just as woman originates from man, so also man comes into existence through woman, but everything springs originally from God.

¹³ Judge of this for your own selves: is it seemly for a woman to pray to God when she is unveiled? ¹⁴ Does not Nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a dishonor to him, ¹⁵ but that if a woman has long hair it is her glory, because her hair was given her for a covering? ¹⁶ But if any one is inclined to be contentious on the point, we have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God.