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1 Corinthians 11:14–15

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Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
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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  1. 2 Samuel 14:26Rank 1 from verse 14
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    26And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king’s weight.

  2. 1 Corinthians 14:35Rank 2 from verse 14
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    35And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

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1 Corinthians 11:14

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even

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1. Used to emphasize, include, or precisely identify what is meant: indeed, precisely, or namely. 2. Used to mark a boundary, endpoint, or full reach in place, time, or degree: up to, as far as, or through. 3. In ‘even as,’ ‘even so,’ and like constructions, just as, exactly so, or in the same manner. 4. The evening, or close of day. 5. Equal, level, identical, balanced, or uniform.

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nature

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Sense 1: The inherent constitution, qualities, character, or kind of a being or thing. Sense 2: The condition belonging by origin or birth. Sense 3: The established or ordinary order or course of things.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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teach

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To instruct, inform, train, show, counsel, or communicate knowledge or doctrine.

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you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

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man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

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long

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Sense 1: Extending a great distance or duration. Sense 2: To desire earnestly.

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hair

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A filament growing from the skin, or the collective covering formed by such filaments; sometimes something extremely fine or small.

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shame

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Sense 1: A painful sense of guilt, disgrace, or dishonor. Sense 2: As a verb, to make ashamed or bring disgrace upon.

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1 Corinthians 11:15

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but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

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long

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Sense 1: Extending a great distance or duration. Sense 2: To desire earnestly.

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hair

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A filament growing from the skin, or the collective covering formed by such filaments; sometimes something extremely fine or small.

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glory

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Sense 1: Splendour, honour, praise, majesty, or a ground of rejoicing or boasting. Sense 2: To boast, exult, take pride, or rejoice in a person or thing.

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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11:2Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

11:3But 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.

11:4Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.

11:5But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

11:6For 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.

11:7For 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.

11:8For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

11:9Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

11:10For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

11:11Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

11:12For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

11:13Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?

11:14Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?

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11:15But 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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11:16But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

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