12. As woman came from man so also man comes from woman. But everything comes from God.
13. Judge for yourselves: Is it appropriate for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
14. Doesn’t nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him;
15. but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? This is because her long hair is given to her for a covering.
16. But if someone wants to argue about this, we don’t have such a custom, nor do God’s churches.
17. Now I don’t praise you as I give the following instruction because when you meet together, it does more harm than good.
18. First of all, when you meet together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it.
19. It’s necessary that there are groups among you, to make it clear who is genuine.