1 Corinthians 11:2-16 - Instructions About Head Coverings

² Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the injunctions as I delivered them unto you. ³ But I desire you to take notice that the head of every man is Christ; but the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. ⁴ Every man praying or prophesying, holding [a veil] over his head, dishonoureth his head; ⁵ but every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled, dishonoureth her head; for it is one and the same thing, as if she were shaven. ⁶ For if the woman be not veiled, let her hair be clipped: but if it would be scandalous for a woman to appear clipped or shaved, let her be veiled.

⁷ For a man indeed ought not to veil his head, being the image and the glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man. ⁸ For the man is not from the woman, but the woman from the man. ⁹ Also the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man. ¹⁰ Therefore ought the woman to retain upon her head [this badge of authority], because of the angels [of the churches]. ¹¹ Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man in the Lord. ¹² For as the woman was taken out of the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are of God.

¹³ Judge among yourselves, is it decent for a woman to be praying to God without a covering? ¹⁴ Does not even nature itself teach you, that if a man wear long flowing hair it is a dishonour to him? ¹⁵ But if a woman let her hair flow, it is an ornament to her; for the hair was given her for a covering, ¹⁶ But if any man mean to be contentious about it, we have no such custom, nor the churches of God.