1 Corinthians 11:6

American Standard Version (1901)

For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.

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  • Deut 22:5 : 5 A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.

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  • 1 Cor 11:3-5
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    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, dishonoreth his head.

    5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoreth her head; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

  • 1 Cor 11:7-16
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    7 For a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, forasmuch as 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 for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man:

    10 for this cause ought the woman to have [a sign of] authority on her head, because of the angels.

    11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.

    12 For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God.

    13 Judge ye in yourselves: is it seemly that a woman pray unto God unveiled?

    14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

    15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

    16 But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

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    34 let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.

    35 And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church.

    36 What? was it from you that the word of God went forth? or came it unto you alone?

  • 1 Tim 2:9-12
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    9 In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;

    10 but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.

    11 Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

    12 But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

  • 1 Pet 3:3-5
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    3 Whose [adorning] let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;

    4 but [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible [apparel] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

    5 For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

  • 5 All the days of his vow of separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in which he separateth himself unto Jehovah, he shall be holy; he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

  • 17 therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.

  • 9 And if any man die very suddenly beside him, and he defile the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

  • 6 And if she be [married] to a husband, while her vows are upon her, or the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul,

  • 29 And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the head or upon the beard,

  • 18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

  • Lev 13:40-41
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    40 And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; [yet] is he clean.

    41 And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald; [yet] is he clean.

  • 11 (but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

  • 3 Also when a woman voweth a vow unto Jehovah, and bindeth herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,

  • 5 A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.

  • 12 then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

  • 4 A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

  • 5 [ to be] sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

  • 10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head go loose, nor rend his clothes;

  • 10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

  • 5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

  • 27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

  • 4 The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

  • 36 But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin [daughter], if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.

  • 12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four borders of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

  • 16 If any woman that believeth hath widows, let her relieve them, and let not the church be burdened; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

  • 33 then he shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up [him that hath] the scall seven days more:

  • 34 and is divided. [So] also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

  • 19 And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

  • 10 Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.

  • 26 Therefore will I also uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall appear.