Key Verse Spotlight
1 Corinthians 11:6 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.”
1 Corinthians 11:6
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Every man praying or prophesying, having {his} head covered, dishonoureth his head.
But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with {her} head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
For a man indeed ought not to cover {his} head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
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