15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a praise unto her: for her hair is given her for a [a]covering.

16 [b]But if any man list to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the Churches of God.

17 [c]Now in this that I declare, I praise you not, that ye come together, not with profit, but with hurt.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 11:15 To be a covering for her, and such a covering as should procure another.
  2. 1 Corinthians 11:16 Against such as are stubbornly contentious we have to oppose this, that the Churches of God are not contentious.
  3. 1 Corinthians 11:17 He passeth now to the next treatise concerning the right administration of the Lord’s Supper. And the Apostle useth this sharper preface that the Corinthians might understand, that whereas they observed generally the Apostle’s commandments, yet they foully neglected them in a matter of greatest importance.

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