1 Corinthians 11

¹Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

²Now I commend you, brothers, because you remember me in everything and hold fast to the traditions just as I delivered them to you.

³But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

⁴Every man who prays or prophesies with something on his head dishonors his head.

⁵But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head — for it is the same as if she were shaved.

⁶For if a woman does not cover herself, let her also be shorn; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her cover herself.

⁷For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.

⁸For man is not from woman, but woman from man;

⁹for indeed man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man;

¹¹Nevertheless, neither is woman without man nor man without woman in the Lord;

¹²for just as the woman is from the man, so also the man is through the woman; but all things are from God.

¹³Judge among yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God uncovered?

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

¹⁵but if a woman wears long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair has been given to her as a covering.

¹⁶But if anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

¹⁷But in directing this, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

¹⁸For first, when you come together in an assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and in part I believe it.

¹⁹for there must indeed be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you.

²⁰When therefore you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper;

²¹for each one takes his own supper first when you eat, and one is hungry while another is drunk.

²²For do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I do not praise you.

²³For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was betrayed, took bread,

²⁴and having given thanks, he broke it and said, 'Take, eat; this is my body which is for you — do this in remembrance of me.'

²⁵Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood — do this, as often as you drink, in remembrance of me.'

²⁶For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.

²⁷Therefore, whoever eats this bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

²⁸But let a person examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

²⁹For the one who eats and drinks eats and drinks judgment on himself, not discerning the body.

³⁰That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number have fallen asleep.

³¹But if we were discerning ourselves, we would not be coming under judgment.

³²But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined, so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

³³So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

³⁴If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that when you come together it may not be for judgment. As for the other matters, I will give directions when I come.