11 ² I COMMEND YOU for always keeping me in mind, and maintaining the tradition I handed on to you. 11 ³ But I wish you to understand that, while every man has Christ for his Head, woman's head is man, Or: a woman's head is her husband. as Christ's Head is God. 11 ⁴ A man who keeps his head covered when he prays or prophesies brings shame on his head; 11 ⁵ a woman, on the contrary, brings shame on her head if she prays or prophesies bareheaded: it is as bad as if her head were shaved. 11 ⁶ If a woman is not to wear a veil she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for her to be cropped and shaved, then she should wear a veil. 11 ⁷ A man has no need to cover his head, because man is the image of God, and the mirror of his glory, whereas woman reflects the glory of man. Or: a woman reflects her husband's glory. 11 ⁸ For man did not originally spring from woman, but woman was made out of man; 11 ⁹ and man was not created for woman's sake, but woman for the sake of man; 11 ¹⁰ and therefore it is woman's duty to have a sign of authority Some witnesses read: to have a veil. on her head, out of regard for the angels. Or: and therefore a woman should keep her dignity on her head, for fear of the angels. 11 ¹¹ And yet, in Christ's fellowship woman is as essential to man as man to woman. 11 ¹² If woman was made out of man, it is through woman that man now comes to be; and God is the source of all.
11 ¹³ Judge for yourselves: is it fitting for a woman to pray to God bare-headed? 11 ¹⁴ Does not Nature herself teach you that while flowing locks disgrace a man, they are a woman's glory? 11 ¹⁵ For her locks were given for covering.
11 ¹⁶ However, if you insist on arguing, let me tell you, there is no such custom among us, or in any of the congregations of God's people.