1 Corinthians
11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep
the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
11:3 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.
11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth
his head.
11:5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered
dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
11:6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a
shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
11:7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the
image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
11:8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
11:9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
11:10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the
angels.
11:11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman
without the man, in the Lord.
11:12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman;
but all things of God.
11:13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it
is a shame unto him?
11:15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is
given her for a covering.
11:16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither
the churches of God.
11:17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come
together not for the better, but for the worse.
11:18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there
be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
11:19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved
may be made manifest among you.
11:20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the
Lord's supper.
11:21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is
hungry, and another is drunken.
11:22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the
church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you?
shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
11:23 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:
11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is
my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying,
This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye
drink it, in remembrance of me.
11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the
Lord's death till he come.
11:27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the
Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and
drink of that cup.
11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh
damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not
be condemned with the world.
11:33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for
another.
11:34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together
unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
