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1 Corinthians 11:13 KJV
1 Corinthians · chapter 11 · verse 13
Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?1 Corinthians 11:13 · King James Version
1 Corinthians 11:13 in context
11Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
12For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
13Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
14Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
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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Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- yourselveshyminyouG5213 →
- yourselvesautoshimself, herself, themselves, itself, he, she, it, the sameG846 →
- comelyprepōto stand out, to be conspicuous, to be eminent, to be becoming, seemly, fitG4241 →
- Judgekrinōto separate, put asunder, to pick out, select, choose, to approve, esteem, to prefer, to…G2919 →
- womangynēa woman of any age, whether a virgin, or married, or a widow, a wife, of a betrothed womanG1135 →
- prayproseuchomaito offer prayers, to prayG4336 →
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Paul, having answered the cases put to him, proceeds in this chapter to the redress of grievances. The first verse of the chapter is put, by those who divided the epistle into chapters, as a preface to the rest of the epistle, but seems to have been a more proper close to the last, in which he had enforced the…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-16