1 Corinthians 11:1-9 ▼

1 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.