VERSE STUDY • KJV

1 Corinthians 11:15

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

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

but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.

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

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

and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her;

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

13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?

14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto 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 seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

17 Now in this that I declare [unto you] I praise [you] not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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