1 Corinthians 11

1 Be imitators of me, in so far as I in turn am an imitator of Christ.

Be ye followers of me, 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, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of me: and keep my ordinances as I have delivered them to you.

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 would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

4 A man who wears a veil when praying or prophesying dishonors his Head;

Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered, disgraceth his head.

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 not covered, disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven.

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 be shorn. But if it be a shame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let her cover her head.

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.

The man indeed ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

8 Man does not take his origin from woman, but woman takes hers from man.

For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.

9 For man was not created for woman's sake, but woman for man's.

For the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for 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 a power over her head, because of the angels.

11 Yet, in the Lord, woman is not independent of man nor man independent of woman.

But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, 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?

You yourselves judge: doth it become a woman, to pray unto God uncovered?

14 Does not Nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a dishonor to him,

Doth not even nature itself teach you, that a man indeed, if he nourish his hair, it is a shame unto him?

15 but that if a woman has long hair it is her glory, because her hair was given her for a covering?

But if a woman nourish her hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering.

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 man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the church 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.

Now this I ordain: not praising you, that you 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 of all I hear that when you come together in the church, there are schisms among you; and in part I believe 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 be also heresies: that they also, who are approved, may be made manifest among you.

20 When, however, you meet in one place, there is no eating the Supper of the Lord;

When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now 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 every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk.

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.

What, have you not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God; and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not.

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 have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, 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 giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye, and eat: this is my body, which shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration 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 chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration 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 you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew 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.

Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty 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 so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice.

29 For any one who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgement to himself, if he fails to estimate the body aright.

For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.

30 That is why many among you are sickly and out of health, and why not a few die.

Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you, and many sleep.

31 If, however, we estimated ourselves aright, we should not be judged.

But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

32 But when we are judged by the Lord, chastisement follows, to save us from being condemned along with the world.

But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.

33 Therefore, brethren, when you come together for this meal, wait for one another.

Wherefore, my brethren, when you 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 man be hungry, let him eat at home; that you come not together unto judgment. And the rest I will set in order, when I come.