New Testament in a Year

11 try to imitate me, even as I myself try to imitate the Messiah.

² Now I praise you because you have remembered everything I told you and observe the traditions just the way I passed them on to you. ³ But I want you to understand that the head of every man is the Messiah, and the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of the Messiah is God. ⁴ Every man who prays or prophesies wearing something down over his head brings shame to his head, ⁵ but every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled brings shame to her head — there is no difference between her and a woman who has had her head shaved. ⁶ For if a woman is not veiled, let her also have her hair cut short; but if it is shameful for a woman to wear her hair cut short or to have her head shaved, then let her be veiled. ⁷ For a man indeed should not have his head veiled, because he is the image and glory of God, and the woman is the glory of man. ⁸ For man was not made from woman, but woman from man; ⁹ and indeed man was not created for the sake of the woman but woman for the sake of the man. ¹⁰ The reason a woman should show by veiling her head that she is under authority has to do with the angels. ¹¹ Nevertheless, in union with the Lord neither is woman independent of man nor is man independent of woman; ¹² for as the woman was made from the man, so also the man is now born through the woman. But everything is from God. ¹³ Decide for yourselves: is it appropriate for a woman to pray to God when she is unveiled? ¹⁴ Doesn’t the nature of things itself teach you that a man who wears his hair long degrades himself? ¹⁵ But a woman who wears her hair long enhances her appearance, because her hair has been given to her as a covering. ¹⁶ However, if anyone wants to argue about it, the fact remains that we have no such custom, nor do the Messianic communities of God.