1 Corinthians 11:1-16

Darby Translation

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

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

³ But 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.

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

⁵ But 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].

⁶ For 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁴ Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?

¹⁵ But woman, if she have long hair, [it is] glory to her; for the long hair is given [to her] in lieu of a veil.

¹⁶ But if any one think to be contentious, *we* have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God.