1 Corinthians 11:7
Good News Translation
A man has no need to cover his head, because he reflects the image and glory of God. But woman reflects the glory of man;

New Revised Standard Version
For a man ought not to have his head veiled, since he is the image and reflection of God; but woman is the reflection of man.

Contemporary English Version
Men were created to be like God and to bring honor to God. This means a man should not wear anything on his head. Women were created to bring honor to men.

New American Bible
A man, on the other hand, should not cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

he is.

Genesis 1:26,27 And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth. . . .

Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.

Genesis 9:6 Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

Psalm 8:6 And hast set him over the works of thy hands.

James 3:9 By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men who are made after the likeness of God.

but.

1 Corinthians 11:3 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.

Genesis 3:16 To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

Context
Roles in Worship
6For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn. But if it be a shame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let her cover her head. 7The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because 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.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:26
And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 1:27
And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.

Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.

Genesis 9:6
Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

Proverbs 12:4
The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

1 Corinthians 11:6
For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn. But if it be a shame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let her cover her head.

2 Corinthians 8:23
Either for Titus, who is my companion and fellow labourer towards you, or our brethren, the apostles of the churches, the glory of Christ.

James 3:9
By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men who are made after the likeness of God.

1 Corinthians 11:6
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