Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Headcovering for a woman according to Bible

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

Some church groups require a woman to wear a hat or kerchief to church gatherings. 

What is a "covering" for a woman?

Paul explains in I Cor. 11 ... 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. 4Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. 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. 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. 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. 8For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. 9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 10For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.  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

We see in this scripture if a man has long hair it is a shame.  And if a woman has her head shorn it is a shame.

Also pay attention to vv. 9-10 ... Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 10For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. 

It seems important for the woman to honor the man, the creation by God of the man as "power", by having proper hair length and also there is some type of honor of the angels.

I am amazed at how so many older women have such short hair.  A teenaged girl so often does have long hair.  And when she marries, I have noticed, she is so often pictured with longer hair.  Then after marriage, that hair is so often shorter ... It is like a dishonoring of the husband in sight of God based on I Cor. 11.

And notice that Paul says it is against nature for the man to have long hair ... Inside men is the concept of men having shorter hair.  The majority of men still seem to have shorter hair.  By nature ... seems to be in them to do this as a majority.

Nevertheless, this is obviously an important issue to God for God had Paul write it in the Bible and that is what we go by.