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Now I praise you because you remember me in everything
and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

I Corinthians 11:2

Is a Woman’s Hair Her Only Covering?

lthough this book is written to women who have already decided that they want
to walk in godliness and to willingly accept the divine order of Yahweh’s
Agovernment, I felt like something should be written about the objections that
arise from many sources today. Godly women are regularly confronted with some
objection or another to the path they have chosen. Some have supposed that they
have come up with a “killer argument” that overturns all that we have spoken of thus
far. This chapter, and the next, addresses the arguments that I have heard most
often.

Not all who bring up these arguments are malicious or rebellious, some simply have
not been taught the truth. These chapters are written to encourage the women who
do practice headcovering and who seek to honor the government established by
Yahweh. It is my hope that if any have been troubled by the arguments spoken of
here that they might regain peace as the scriptures are examined in their proper
context.

I have had some sisters ask me what constitutes covering the head. Some teach today
that a woman’s hair is all the covering that she needs and that the hair was the
covering that the apostle Paul was referring to in his epistle to the Corinthians. We
can clearly see the error of this viewpoint as we examine Paul’s writings.

There are many evidences of the practice of Christian women of the early church
wearing a covering over their head, including paintings found on the walls of the
catacombs of Rome where the saints hid to escape persecution. However, in this
chapter we will limit ourselves to scriptural evidence.

Those who raise the argument that a woman only needs her hair for a covering base
this upon Paul’s words in I Corinthians 11:15b which states, “for her hair is given her
for a covering.” This would seem to be implying that a woman’s hair is all the
covering that is being spoken of by the apostle, and if a woman has hair, particularly
long hair, then she is properly covered and is giving a testimony to the angels.

This view has a couple of problems, however. If this covering is a sign to the angels,
as verse 10 of this same passage states, then would it not be true that all women with