1. Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Messiah.
2. Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firm the traditions just as I passed them on to you.
3. But I want you to know that the head of every man is Messiah, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Messiah is God.
4. Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered dishonors his head.
5. But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same as having been shaved.
6. For if a woman does not cover her head, let her cut off her hair. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her cover her head.
7. For surely a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of man.
8. For man is not from woman, but woman from man.