1 Corinthians 11:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And any woman who [publicly] prays or prophesies (teaches, refutes, reproves, admonishes, or comforts) when she is bareheaded dishonors her head (her husband); it is the same as [if her head were] shaved.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoreth her head; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

Common English Bible

⁵ Every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head. It is the same thing as having her head shaved.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered disgraces her head. For it is the same as if her head were shaven.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered, disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven.

1 Corinthians 11:5 Cross References

Isaiah 47:2

Take the millstones, and grind meal: remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

Luke 2:36

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

Acts 2:17

And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour forth of my Spirit upon all flesh: And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see visions, And your old men shall dream dreams:

Acts 21:9

Now this man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.

1 Corinthians 11:4

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

1 Corinthians 11:6

For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.

1 Corinthians 14:34

Let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.

Deuteronomy 21:12

then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;