1st Corinthians Chapter 11 verse 14 Holy Bible
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
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Does it not seem natural to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him?
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Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?
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Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
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Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
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doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - Doth not even nature itself teach you? "Nature" here has much the lame sense as "instinct." "His fair large front and eye sublime declaredAbsolute rule; and hyacinthine locksRound from his parted forelock manly hungClustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:She, as a veil, down to the slender waistHer unadorned golden tresses wore."(Milton, 'Paradise Lost,' 4:304.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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).
