1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 129 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. ...

1 Corinthians 11:4 ESV / 82 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head,

1 Corinthians 11:5 ESV / 76 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven.

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 60 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

1 Corinthians 11:2-16 ESV / 56 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head. ...

1 Corinthians 11:15 ESV / 46 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

1 Timothy 2:9-15 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works. Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; ...

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 11:10 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

Daniel 3:21 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Then these men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics, their hats, and their other garments, and they were thrown into the burning fiery furnace.

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

1 Corinthians 11:7 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.

1 Corinthians 11:2 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

1 Corinthians 11:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

1 Corinthians 11:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

1 Corinthians 11:3-16 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head. For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. ...

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

1 Corinthians 11:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ...

Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

Numbers 5:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord and unbind the hair of the woman's head and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ...

1 Corinthians 11:14-15 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him, but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

1 Corinthians 11:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head.

1 Corinthians 11:4-7 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head. For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.

1 Corinthians 11:3-15 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head. For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. ...

1 Peter 3:2-5 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful When they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

2 Thessalonians 2:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.

1 Corinthians 15:1-58 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. ...

Romans 12:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

John 14:28 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

Isaiah 26:1-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks. Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in. You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. For he has humbled the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust. ...

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Leviticus 13:45 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean.’

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

1 Corinthians 15:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,

1 Corinthians 11:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered?

John 8:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—

1 Peter 1:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

1 Corinthians 11:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him,

1 Corinthians 11:13-15 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered? Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him, but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

1 Corinthians 11:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. ...

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

2 Timothy 2:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Thessalonians 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?

Romans 1:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

John 16:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. ...

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Psalm 118:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.

1 Peter 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

1 Peter 3:2-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful When they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

1 Timothy 2:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

Philippians 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 11:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.

1 Corinthians 11:2-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head.

Romans 14:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.

Acts 10:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,

Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.