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

² And I approve you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and as I have delivered to you, do ye hold the traditions. ³ And I will 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, having on the head, shames his head. ⁵ And every woman praying or prophesying with head uncovered shames her head: for it is one and the same to her having been shaved. ⁶ For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: and if shameful to the woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

⁷ For truly the man ought not to have the head covered, being the image and glory of God: and the woman is the glory of the man. ⁸ For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. ⁹ For also the man was not created through the woman; but the woman through the man. ¹⁰ Therefore the woman ought to have power upon the head for the angels. ¹¹ But neither the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord. ¹² For as the woman by the man, so also the man by the woman; and all things of God.

¹³ Judge in yourselves: is it suitable for a woman to pray to God uncovered? ¹⁴ Does not nature itself teach you, that, if a man truly have long hair, it is a dishonour to him? ¹⁵ And if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for the hair has been given her for a cloak. ¹⁶ And if any one seem to be loving strife, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.