1 Corinthians 11
1 Be imitators of me, in so far as I in turn am an imitator of Christ.
Be my imitators, even as I also [am] of Christ.
2 Now I commend you for remembering me in everything, and because you hold fast truths and practices precisely as I have taught them to you.
Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.
3 I would have you know, however, that of every man, Christ is the Head, that of a woman her husband is the Head, and that God is Christ's Head.
But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head [is] the man, and the Christ's head God.
4 A man who wears a veil when praying or prophesying dishonors his Head;
Every man praying or prophesying, having [anything] on his head, puts his head to shame.
5 but a woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her Head, for it is exactly the same as if she had her hair cut short.
But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved [woman].
6 If a woman will not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair. But since it is a dishonor to a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her wear a veil.
For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if [it be] shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered.
7 For a man ought not to have a veil on his head, since he is the image and glory of God; while woman is the glory of man.
For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory.
8 Man does not take his origin from woman, but woman takes hers from man.
For man is not of woman, but woman of man.
9 For man was not created for woman's sake, but woman for man's.
For also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.
10 That is why a woman ought to have on her head a symbol of subjection, because of the angels.
Therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head, on account of the angels.
11 Yet, in the Lord, woman is not independent of man nor man independent of woman.
However, neither [is] woman without man, nor man without woman, in [the] Lord.
12 For just as woman originates from man, so also man comes into existence through woman, but everything springs originally from God.
For as the woman [is] of the man, so also [is] the man by the woman, but all things of God.
13 Judge of this for your own selves: is it seemly for a woman to pray to God when she is unveiled?
Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered?
14 Does not Nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a dishonor to him,
Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?
15 but that if a woman has long hair it is her glory, because her hair was given her for a covering?
But woman, if she have long hair, [it is] glory to her; for the long hair is given [to her] in lieu of a veil.
16 But if any one is inclined to be contentious on the point, we have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God.
But if any one think to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God.
17 But while giving you these instructions, there is one thing I cannot praise--your meeting together, with bad rather than good results.
But [in] prescribing [to you on] this [which I now enter on], I do not praise, [namely, ] that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.
18 for, in the first place, when you meet as a Church, there are divisions among you. This is what I am told, and I believe that there is some truth in it.
For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit [to it].
19 For there must of necessity be differences of opinion among you, in order that it may be plainly seen who are the men of sterling worth among you.
For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you.
20 When, however, you meet in one place, there is no eating the Supper of the Lord;
When ye come therefore together into one place, it is not to eat [the] Lord's supper.
21 for it is his own supper of which each of you is in a hurry to partake, and one eats like a hungry man, while another has already drunk to excess.
For each one in eating takes his own supper before [others], and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.
22 Why, have you no homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you wish to show your contempt for the Church of God and make those who have no homes feel ashamed? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this matter I certainly do not praise you.
Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this [point] I do not praise.
23 For it was from the Lord that I received the facts which, in turn, I handed on to you; how that the Lord Jesus, on the night He was to be betrayed, took some bread,
For I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,
24 and after giving thanks He broke it and said, "This is my body which is about to be broken for you. Do this in memory of me."
and having given thanks broke [it], and said, This is my body, which [is] for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 In the same way, when the meal was over, He also took the cup. "This cup," He said, "is the new Covenant of which my blood is the pledge. Do this, every time that you drink it, in memory of me."
In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye shall drink [it], in remembrance of me.
26 For every time that you eat this bread and drink from the cup, you are proclaiming the Lord's death--until He returns.
For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come.
27 Whoever, therefore, in an unworthy manner, eats the bread or drinks from the cup of the Lord sins against the body and blood of the Lord.
So that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man examine himself, and, having done that, then let him eat the bread and drink from the cup.
But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
29 For any one who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgement to himself, if he fails to estimate the body aright.
For [the] eater and drinker eats and drinks judgment to himself, not distinguishing the body.
30 That is why many among you are sickly and out of health, and why not a few die.
On this account many among you [are] weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep.
31 If, however, we estimated ourselves aright, we should not be judged.
But if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged.
32 But when we are judged by the Lord, chastisement follows, to save us from being condemned along with the world.
But being judged, we are disciplined of [the] Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
33 Therefore, brethren, when you come together for this meal, wait for one another.
So that, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another.
34 If any one is hungry, let him eat at home; so that your coming together may not lead to judgement. The other matters I will deal with whenever I come.
If any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for judgment. But the other things, whenever I come, I will set in order.
