1 Corinthians 11

¹Be my imitators, even as I also [am] of Christ.

²Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.

³But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head [is] the man, and the Christ's head God.

⁴Every man praying or prophesying, having [anything] on his head, puts his head to shame.

⁵But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved [woman].

⁶For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if [it be] shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered.

⁷For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory.

⁸For man is not of woman, but woman of man.

⁹For also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.

¹⁰Therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head, on account of the angels.

¹¹However, neither [is] woman without man, nor man without woman, in [the] Lord.

¹²For as the woman [is] of the man, so also [is] the man by the woman, but all things of God.

¹³Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered?

Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?