1. Be followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2. Now I praise you, brethren, because you remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
3. But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
4. Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
5. But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head: for that is one and the same as if she were shaven.
6. For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
7. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
8. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
9. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
10. For this cause ought the woman to have authority on her head because of the angels.
11. Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
12. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God.
13. Judge for yourselves: is it proper that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
14. Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a shame unto him?
15. But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
16. But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
17. Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse.
18. For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.