(31)Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all things to the glory of God. (32)Give no occasion of stumbling either to the Jews or the Gentiles, or the church of God: (33)even as I please all men, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many, that they may be saved. CHAP. XI. BE ye imitators of me, as I am of Christ. (2)Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the injunctions as I delivered them unto you. (3)But I desire you to take notice that the head of every man is Christ; but the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. (4)Every man praying or prophesying, holding _a veil_ over his head, dishonoureth his head; (5)but every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled, dishonoureth her head; for it is one and the same thing, as if she were shaven. (6)For if the woman be not veiled, let her hair be clipped: but if it would be scandalous for a woman to appear clipped or shaved, let her be veiled. (7)For a man indeed ought not to veil his head, being the image and the glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man. (8)For the man is not from the woman, but the woman from the man. (9)Also the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man. (10)Therefore ought the woman to retain upon her head _this badge of authority_, because of the angels _of the churches_. (11)Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man in the Lord. (12)For as the woman was taken out of the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are of God. (13)Judge among yourselves, is it decent for a woman to be praying to God without a covering? (14)Does not even nature itself teach you, that if a man wear long flowing hair it is a dishonour to him? (15)But if a woman let her hair flow, it is an ornament to her; for the hair was given her for a covering, (16)But if any man mean to be contentious about it, we have no such custom, nor the churches of God. (17)But in the matter I am going to denounce, I do not commend you, that ye meet together not for the better, but for the worse. (18)For in the first place, when ye assemble in the church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it. (19)For there must be heresies among you, that they who are the tried ones, may be made manifest among you.