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

² now I commend you, brethren, for remembring all my orders, and for keeping the rules I delivered to you. ³ but I would have you take notice, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the wife, is the man; and the head of Christ, is God. ⁴ every man who prays or prophesies having his head covered, dishonoureth him who is his head: but every woman who prays ⁵ or prophesies with her head uncovered, dishonoureth the man who is her head: for it is the same thing as if her head was shav'd. ⁶ a woman may as well have the tonsure, as not wear her veil: the one is as indecent as the other.

⁷ A man ought not to be veil'd: he has the honour of being invested with authority from God, and may glory in his priority to the woman. ⁸ for the man was not taken from the woman: but the woman from the man. ⁹ nor was the man copied from the woman: but the woman from the man. ¹⁰ therefore the woman ought to be veil'd, out of regard to the angels. ¹¹ however, the man and the woman are equal with respect to the Lord. ¹² for as the woman was taken from the man, so man is born of the woman: and all are from God.

¹³ Be you yourselves judges: is it decent for a woman to pray to God without a veil? ¹⁴ does not settled custom show it is a shame for a man to have long hair? ¹⁵ on the contrary, such is an ornament to a woman: because it was given her as a sort of veil. ¹⁶ but if any man has a mind to be contentious, I answer, we have no such custom, nor any of the churches of God.