1 Corinthians 11

¹Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

²Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

³But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

⁴Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.

⁵But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

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

⁷For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

⁸For man is not from woman, but woman from man;

⁹for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.

¹⁰For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels.

¹¹Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

¹²For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

¹³Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?