1 Corinthians 11:6

For if. woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: but if it is. shame to. woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.

'This is. sample of Paul's consistent thinking. We have seen that he always goes to the bottom of. question, to the plain and decisive principle that is key to that question.' (Lenski p. 441)

'One kind of action (being uncovered) is just like another (having mannish hair). If the latter is shameful, so too is the former.' (Fee p. 512)

These woman wanted to take. "half-way" position, and Paul wouldn't allow such. Paul says, in the eyes of Corinthian society, to be unveiled means the same thing as being shaven. Both are viewed as insubordination and being "mannish".

'If the veil speaks of subjection (and it does--verse 10) then it is the female rather than the male who should wear it. The divine arrangement is that the woman is subject to man and the veil of the female at that time and in that area proclaimed that.' Man (the male) cannot wear such. token of subjection.' (McGuiggan p. 148)