1. Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
2. I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold fast to the traditions, just as I handed them on to you.
3. But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and a husband the head of his wife, and God the head of Christ.
4. Any man who prays or prophesies with his head covered brings shame upon his head.
5. But any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled brings shame upon her head, for it is one and the same thing as if she had had her head shaved.
6. For if a woman does not have her head veiled, she may as well have her hair cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should wear a veil.
7. A man, on the other hand, should not cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.
8. For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;
9. nor was man created for woman, but woman for man;
10. for this reason a woman should have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.
11. Woman is not independent of man or man of woman in the Lord.
12. For just as woman came from man, so man is born of woman; but all things are from God.