So the question now is
1 Cor. 11:16, and I would really appreciate the insight of anyone that has studied out the headship/hair/headcovering matter.
1 Cor. 11 speaks of GOD being the head of Christ, Christ being the head of man, and man the head of the woman. Paul then says a man should not cover his head when praying or prophesying, but that a woman should have her head covered. Paul then goes on to write that it is a glory given to a woman if she has long hair, and that if a man keeps his hair long, he shames his head...
THEN at verse 16 Paul writes (KJV):
16But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
What is he saying? Is he saying, "But hey, if you're all going to argue about it, forget about all that headcovering and hair stuff I was talking about, we really don't have a custom concerning these things." OR is he writing, "If you want to argue about it, forget it, this is what we teach in the churches of GOD, so get in line!"
I'm sort of going back and forth on this... other translations, like the New Living say,
"But if anyone wants to argue about this, I simply say that we have no other custom than this, and neither do God’s other churches."
The New American Standard Version says,
"But if one is inclined to be contentious, we have no other practice, nor have the churches of God."
The Message (if anyone cares) says,
"I hope you're not going to be argumentative about this. All God's churches see it this way; I don't want you standing out as an exception."
So there's a few other translations. I looked up EVERY English translation on biblegateway, which was only about 20 or so, but I didn't want to bore you all with posting all of those verse interpretations.
Anyone want to provide any insight on this verse?
GOD BLESS!
Bro. Alex
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