1 Corinthians 11:2-6
2 Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things and keep the traditions just as I delivered them to you. 3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. 5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were shaved. 6 For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.
2 Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things and keep the traditions just as I delivered them to you. 3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. 5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were shaved. 6 For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.
The precepts or ordinances given to the church in Corinth dealt with authority and roles of men and women in the church and as in marriage. The meaning was not to make women second class, but to reinforce the created order of man directly by God’s hand and breath under the Word who made him, with woman out of that man some time afterwards. This is why the man falls under God’s authority directly, and the woman (wife) directly under him. The behavior in church described here follows that design with precepts for showing this spiritual “chain of command,” by the cultural method of head covering as submission to the authority, not as a lesser being or of least importance.
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