1 Corinthians 11:15

But is a woman's pride. This is in contrast to what he says in 1 Corinthians 11:14. While long hair would disgrace a man, it is a source of pride to a woman. As a covering. To identify her as a woman and to show her relationship to man. C. R. Nichol writes: "Custom today calls for shorter hair than it did in the days of my boyhood; yet women's hair dressed in the style of today is as identifying and serves as a covering as it did when women wore it long. In Corinth there were some who would dictate the length of woman's hair, and today there are some who speak as though they were authority, and dictate the length necessary for a woman to have her hair, else she will never enter heaven." [This whole question of woman's role in Christianity is discussed in C. R. Nichol's book, God's Woman.]