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2 Now I commend you for remembering me in everything, and because you hold fast truths and practices precisely as I have taught them to you.
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I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the traditions just as I passed them on to you.
3 I would have you know, however, that of every man, Christ is the Head, that of a woman her husband is the Head, and that God is Christ's Head.
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But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
4 A man who wears a veil when praying or prophesying dishonors his Head;
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Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.
5 but a woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her Head, for it is exactly the same as if she had her hair cut short.
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But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is the same as having her head shaved.
6 If a woman will not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair. But since it is a dishonor to a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her wear a veil.
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For if a woman does not cover her head, she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should cover her head.
7 For a man ought not to have a veil on his head, since he is the image and glory of God; while woman is the glory of man.
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A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.
8 Man does not take his origin from woman, but woman takes hers from man.
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For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;
9 For man was not created for woman's sake, but woman for man's.
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neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
10 That is why a woman ought to have on her head a symbol of subjection, because of the angels.
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It is for this reason that a woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels.
11 Yet, in the Lord, woman is not independent of man nor man independent of woman.
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Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
12 For just as woman originates from man, so also man comes into existence through woman, but everything springs originally from God.
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For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.
13 Judge of this for your own selves: is it seemly for a woman to pray to God when she is unveiled?
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Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
14 Does not Nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a dishonor to him,
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Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,
15 but that if a woman has long hair it is her glory, because her hair was given her for a covering?
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but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.
16 But if any one is inclined to be contentious on the point, we have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God.
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If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice—nor do the churches of God.
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