1 Corinthians 11:2-16 - Instructions About Head Coverings

² But I praise you because you remember me in all things, and hold fast the commandments, as I delivered them unto you. ³ But I wish you to know, that Christ is the head of every man; and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ. ⁴ Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. ⁵ But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head: for that is one and the same to her being shaven. ⁶ If a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it is a disgrace for a woman to be shorn or shaven; let her be covered.

⁷ For a man ought not to cover his head, being the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man. ⁸ For the man is not from the woman; but the woman is from the man; ⁹ for man indeed was not created on account of the woman; but the woman on account of the man. ¹⁰ Therefore the woman ought to have authority on her head, on account of the angels. ¹¹ Moreover neither is the woman without the man in the Lord, nor the man without the woman. ¹² For as the woman is from the man, so the man also is by the woman; and all things from God.

¹³ Judge ye among yourselves: is it becoming for a woman to pray to God uncovered? ¹⁴ Does not nature itself teach you, that, if a man may indeed have long hair, it is a dishonor to him? ¹⁵ But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory unto her: because the hair has been given to her for a covering. ¹⁶ If any one seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.