Honor in Prayer

1Become imitators of me, just as I also am of the Messiah.

2I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions just as I delivered them to you.

3But I want you to know that the head of every man is Messiah, and the head of a woman is the man, and the head of Messiah is God.

4Every man who prays or prophesies with something on his head dishonors his head.

5But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as having been shaved.

6For if a woman does not cover her head, she should also have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, she should cover her head.

7For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.

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

9For indeed, man was not created for the woman, but woman for the man.

10For this reason the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.

11Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not apart from man, nor man apart from woman.

12For just as the woman is from the man, so also the man is through the woman; but all things are from God.

13Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

14Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair, it is a dishonor to him,

15But if a woman has long hair, it is her glory, because her hair has been given to her instead of a covering.

16But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.