1 Corinthians 11

1 Imitate me, as I myself imitate Christ.

Become ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

2 I praise you, indeed, because you never forget me, and are keeping my injunctions in mind, exactly as I laid them on you.

Now I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and keep the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

3 But I am anxious that you should understand that the Christ is the head of every man, that man is the head of woman, and that God is the head of the Christ.

But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

4 Any man who keeps his head covered, when praying or preaching in public, dishonours him who is his head;

Every man praying or prophesying having something upon his head dishonors his head.

5 while any woman, who prays or preaches in public bare-headed, dishonours him who is her head; for that is to make herself like one of the shameless women who shave their heads.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is one and the same thing as the woman who has been shaven.

6 Indeed, if a woman does not keep her head covered, she may as well cut her hair short. But, since to cut her hair short, or shave it off, marks her as one of the shameless women, she should keep her head covered.

For if a woman is not covered, let her also shear herself. But if it is an ugly thing for a woman to shear herself or be shaven, she should be covered.

7 A man ought not to have his head covered, for he has been from the beginning the likeness of God and the reflection of his glory, but woman is the reflection of man’s glory.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory of God, but woman is a glory of man.

8 For it was not man who was taken from woman, but woman who was taken from man.

For man is not from woman, but woman from man.

9 Besides, man was not created for the sake of woman, but woman for the sake of man.

For also man was not created for the woman, but woman for the man.

10 And, therefore, a woman ought to wear on her head a symbol of her subjection, because of the presence of the angels.

Because of this the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of the agents.

11 Still, when in union with the Lord, woman is not independent of man, or man of woman;

Nevertheless, neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord.

12 for just as woman came from man, so man comes by means of woman; and all things come from God.

For just as the woman is from the man, so also the man is through the woman. But all things are from God.

13 Judge for yourselves. Is it fitting that a woman should pray to God in public with her head uncovered?

Judge ye among yourselves, is it proper for a woman to pray to God uncovered?

14 Does not nature herself teach us that, while for a man to wear his hair long is degrading to him,

Or does not nature itself teach you that if a man actually wears long hair it is a disgrace to him?

15 a woman’s long hair is her glory? Her hair has been given her to serve as a covering.

But if a woman wears long hair, it is a glory to her, because her hair has been given for a cloak.

16 If, however, anyone still thinks it right to contest the point – well, we have no such custom, nor have the churches of God.

But if any man appears to be a lover of strife, we have no such custom, nor the congregations of God.

17 In giving directions on the next subject, I cannot praise you; because your meetings do more harm than good.

Now in this that is commanded, I do not praise you, because ye do not assemble for the better but for the worse.

18 To begin with, I am told that when you meet together as a church there are divisions among you. In part I believe this,

For indeed first, when ye come together in a congregation, I hear divisions are present among you, and I partly believe it.

19 indeed, there must be parties among you, so that the people of real worth become known.

For there must also be factions among you, so that the genuine may become apparent among you.

20 When you meet together, as I understand, it is not possible to eat the Lord’s Supper;

When therefore ye come together in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

21 for, as you eat, each of you tries to secure his own supper first, with the result that one has too little to eat, and another has too much to drink!

For each man proceeds to eat his own meal, and one is hungry and another is drunken.

22 Have you no houses in which you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show your contempt for the church of God, and to humiliate the poor? What can I say to you? Should I praise you? In this matter I cannot praise you.

For have ye no houses to eat and to drink in? Or do ye disparage the church of God, and humiliate those not having? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

23 For I myself received from the Lord the account which I have in turn given to you – how the Lord Jesus, on the very night of his betrayal, took some bread,

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

24 and, after saying the thanksgiving, broke it and said ‘This is my own body given on your behalf. Do this in memory of me.’

and having expressed thanks, he broke in pieces, and said, Take ye, eat, this is my body broken for you. This do ye for my memorial.

25 And in the same way with the cup, after supper, saying ‘This cup is the new covenant made by my blood. Do this, whenever you drink it, in memory of me.’

Likewise also the cup after the supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. This do, as often as ye drink it, for my memorial.

26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death – until he comes.

For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

27 Therefore, whoever eats the bread, or drinks the Lord’s cup, in an irreverent spirit, will have to answer for an offence against the Lord’s body and blood.

Therefore whoever may eat this bread or drink the cup of the Lord unworthily of the Lord, will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

28 Let everyone look into their own heart, and only then eat of the bread and drink from the cup.

But let a man examine himself, and let him so eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

29 For the person who eats and drinks brings a judgment on themselves by their eating and drinking, when they do not discern the body.

For he who eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.

30 That is why so many among you are weak and ill, and why some are sleeping.

Because of this many are weak and sickly among you, and a considerable sleep.

31 But, if we judged ourselves rightly, we should not be judged.

But if we were discerning ourselves we would not be judged.

32 Yet, in being judged by the Lord, we are undergoing discipline, so that we may not have judgment passed on us with the rest of the world.

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned with the world.

33 Therefore, my friends, when you meet together to eat the Supper, wait for one another.

Therefore, my brothers, when ye come together to eat, await each other.

34 If anyone is hungry, they should eat at home, so that your meetings may not bring a judgment on you. The other details I will settle when I come.

And if any man is hungry, let him eat at home so that ye may not come together for condemnation. And the rest I will set in order as soon as I come.