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While women should cover their head, men should not do so. Man is the image and glory of God. What does this mean? We know from Gen 1:26,27 that men and women were created in the image of God. To say that men are the glory of God means that we should display with our lives the splendour and wonder of God. Just as a great work of art demonstrates the skill of the artist, so we should demonstrate the greatness of God. Now sinful man does not do that because of sin, but in Christ we have been set back on the right road, and it should be our aim to honour God in our lives. To be a living sacrifice. In the same way, women are the glory of men, or wives the glory of husbands. This does not mean women are inferior to men, not does it mean women are subservient. The noble wife of Prov 31 is anything but a mere wallflower! And women being the glory of man is a bit like the Son being the glory of the Father.
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