² I commend you brethren that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances even as I delivered them to you. ³ I would ye knew that Christ is the head of every man; and the man is the woman's head; and God is Christ's head. ⁴ Every man praying or prophesying having anything on his head, shameth his head. ⁵ Every woman that prayeth or prophesieth bare-headed, dishonesteth her head. For it is even all one and the very same thing, even as though she were shaven. ⁶ If the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn. If it be shame for a woman to be shaven or shorn, let her cover her head.

⁷ A man ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God. The woman is the glory of the man. ⁸ For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. ⁹ Neither was the man created for the woman's sake: but the woman for the man's sake. ¹⁰ For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head, for the angels' sakes. ¹¹ Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord. ¹² For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man by the woman: but all is of God.

¹³ Judge in yourselves whether it be comely that a woman pray unto God bareheaded. ¹⁴ Or else doth not nature teach you, that it is a shame for a man, if he have long hair: ¹⁵ and a praise to a woman if she have long hair? For her hair is given her to cover her withal. ¹⁶ If there be any man among you that lusteth to strife, let him know that we have no such customs, neither the congregations of God.