1 Corinthians 11
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v1
Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
v2
Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
v3
But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
v4
Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
v5
But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.
v6
For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaved, let her be covered.
v7
For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.
v8
For man is not from woman, but woman from man;
v9
for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.
v10
For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels.
v11
Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
v12
For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.
v13
Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?
v14
Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
v15
But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.
v16
But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.
v17
But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.
v18
For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
v19
For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
v20
When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.
v21
For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.
v22
What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.
v23
For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.
v24
When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”
v25
In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”
v26
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
v27
Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
v28
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
v29
For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body.
v30
For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
v31
For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.
v32
But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
v33
Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
v34
But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.