1 Corinthians 11:14
New International Version
Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,

New Living Translation
Isn’t it obvious that it’s disgraceful for a man to have long hair?

English Standard Version
Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him,

Berean Standard Bible
Doesn’t nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,

Berean Literal Bible
Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,

King James Bible
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?

New King James Version
Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

New American Standard Bible
Does even nature itself not teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,

NASB 1995
Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,

NASB 1977
Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,

Legacy Standard Bible
Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,

Amplified Bible
Does not common sense itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,

Christian Standard Bible
Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a disgrace to him,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a disgrace to him,

American Standard Version
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Does not even nature teach you that when a man has grown his hair, it is a disgrace to him?

Contemporary English Version
Isn't it unnatural and disgraceful for men to have long hair?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that a man indeed, if he nourish his hair, it is a shame unto him?

English Revised Version
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Doesn't nature itself teach you that it is disgraceful for a man to have long hair?

Good News Translation
Why, nature itself teaches you that long hair on a man is a disgrace,

International Standard Version
Nature itself teaches you neither that it is disgraceful for a man to have long hair

Literal Standard Version
Does not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

Majority Standard Bible
Doesn’t nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,

New American Bible
Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears his hair long it is a disgrace to him,

NET Bible
Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for him,

New Revised Standard Version
Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair, it is degrading to him,

New Heart English Bible
Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

Webster's Bible Translation
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man hath long hair, it is a shame to him?

Weymouth New Testament
Does not Nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a dishonor to him,

World English Bible
Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

Young's Literal Translation
doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Roles in Worship
13Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? 14Doesn’t nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, 15but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.…

Cross References
John 8:49
"I do not have a demon," Jesus replied, "but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.

1 Corinthians 11:13
Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

1 Corinthians 11:15
but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.


Treasury of Scripture

Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him?

if.

2 Samuel 14:26
And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.

it is.

1 Corinthians 14:35
And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

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1 Corinthians 11
1. He reproves them, because in holy assemblies,
4. their men prayed with their heads covered,
6. and women with their heads uncovered;
17. and because generally their meetings were not for the better, but for the worse;
21. as, namely, in profaning with their own feast the Lord's supper.
25. Lastly, he calls them to the first institution thereof.














(14) Nature itself.--This may mean, either "the native inborn sense of what is seemly" as contrasted with revelation; or it may signify the ordinary and evident arrangement of things in creation. Probably the former is the true meaning of the passage which refers to the fact that the heathen who had no direct revelation did (by regarding long hair as a woman's glory) "by nature" the things contained in the Law (Romans 11:14).

Verse 14. - Doth not even nature itself teach you? "Nature" here has much the lame sense as "instinct."

"His fair large front and eye sublime declared
Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks
Round from his parted forelock manly hung
Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:
She, as a veil, down to the slender waist
Her unadorned golden tresses wore."


(Milton, 'Paradise Lost,' 4:304.)

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Doesn’t
οὐδὲ (oude)
Adverb
Strong's 3761: Neither, nor, not even, and not. From ou and de; not however, i.e. Neither, nor, not even.

nature
φύσις (physis)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5449: From phuo; growth, i.e. natural production; by extension, a genus or sort; figuratively, native disposition, constitution or usage.

itself
αὐτὴ (autē)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Feminine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

teach
διδάσκει (didaskei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1321: To teach, direct, admonish. A prolonged form of a primary verb dao; to teach.

you
ὑμᾶς (hymas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

that
ὅτι (hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

if
ἐὰν (ean)
Conjunction
Strong's 1437: If. From ei and an; a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc.

a man
ἀνὴρ (anēr)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 435: A male human being; a man, husband. A primary word; a man.

has long hair,
κομᾷ (koma)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2863: To wear the hair long, allow the hair to grow out. From kome; to wear tresses of hair.

it is
ἐστιν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

a disgrace
ἀτιμία (atimia)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 819: Disgrace, dishonor; a dishonorable use. From atimos; infamy, i.e. comparative indignity, disgrace.

to him,
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.


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