Covering Their Heads

Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

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.

Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. — read the full passage →

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

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

For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. — read the full passage →

When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

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.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: — read the full passage →

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, — read the full passage →

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; — read the full passage →

And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. — read the full passage →

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. — read the full passage →

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; — read the full passage →

If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. — read the full passage →

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

Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? — read the full passage →

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. — read the full passage →

At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. — read the full passage →

In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.

And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. — read the full passage →

Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; — read the full passage →

And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. — read the full passage →

But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.

Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. — read the full passage →

And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! — read the full passage →

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →

Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru–hamah. — read the full passage →

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. — read the full passage →

Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth. — read the full passage →

Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead. — read the full passage →

And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.

And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. — read the full passage →

And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.