1 Corinthians 11:16

and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

In Context

15and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her;

17And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together;

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Cross References

Jeremiah 32:11And I take the purchase-book, the sealed one, according to law and custom, and the open one.

Acts 21:24these having taken, be purified with them, and be at expence with them, that they may shave the head, and all may know that the things of which they have been instructed concerning thee are nothing, but thou dost walk — thyself also — the law keeping.

1 Corinthians 14:33for God is not [a God] of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

1 Thessalonians 2:14for ye became imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because such things ye suffered, even ye, from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 11:2-17

Directions Concerning Attire; Female Subjection. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. 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. 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. 5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head… Read the whole commentary →

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