1 Corinthians 11:13

Contextual Overview

¹ Follow my example, just as I follow the example of Christ. ¹ Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. ¹ I commende you ¹ Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Messiah. ¹ Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.1 Corinthians 4:16; Ephesians 5:1; Philippians 3:17; 1 Thessalonians 1:6; 2 Thessalonians 3:9;">[xr] ¹ Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ. ¹ Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ. ¹ Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. ¹ Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ. ¹ Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

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1 Corinthians 10:15, Luke 12:57, John 7:24

Reciprocal: Romans 14:13 - but 1 Corinthians 13:5 - behave

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Judge in yourselves,.... The apostle having gone through a variety of reasoning and arguments, showing the superiority of the man to the woman, by which he would prove, that the one should be covered, and the other uncovered, returns to his subject again, and appeals to the common sense and understanding of the Corinthians, and makes them themselves judges of the matter; suggesting that the thing was so clear, and he so certain of what he had advanced being right, that he leaves it with them, not doubting but that they would, upon a little reflection within themselves, join with him in this point:

is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? in you judgment you can never think so, however pleasing and gratifying such a sight may be, to the lust of the flesh, and to the lust of the eye; he does not mention prophesying, only instances in praying; but it is to be understood of one, as of another; and his meaning is, that it is an uncomely thing in a woman to appear in public service with her head uncovered, whether it be in joining in the public prayers, or in singing of psalms, or in hearing the word expounded; and though the apostle does not put the case of the man's praying to God, or prophesying in his name with his head covered, yet his sense is the same of that, as of the woman's.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Judge in yourselves - Or, “Judge among yourselves.” I appeal to you. I appeal to your natural sense of what is proper and right. Paul had used various arguments to show them the impropriety of their females speaking unveiled in public. He now appeals to their natural sense of what was decent and right, according to established and acknowledged customs and habits.

Is it comely ... - Is it decent, or becoming? The Grecian women, except their priestesses, were accustomed to appear in public with a veil - Doddridge. Paul alludes to that established and proper habit, and asks whether it does not accord with their own views of propriety that women in Christian assemblies should also wear the same symbol of modesty.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 11:13. Judge in yourselves — Consider the subject in your own common sense, and then say whether it be decent for a woman to pray in public without a veil on her head? The heathen priestesses prayed or delivered their oracles bare-headed or with dishevelled hair, non comptae mansere comae, as in the case of the Cumaean Sibyl, AEn. vi., ver. 48, and otherwise in great disorder: to be conformed to them would be very disgraceful to Christian women. And in reference to such things as these, the apostle appeals to their sense of honour and decency.