1st Corinthians 11

 

1 Be followers of me (in this way), even as I also am (a follower) of Christ.

2 Now I praise you, brethren, that you have remembered me in all things, and keep the teachings, as I delivered them to you.

3 But I want you to 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 Every man praying or prophesying, having (Christ) his head (authority) covered, dishonors (Christ) his head.

5 But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered (supplants her authority) dishonors her head: for that would be the same as having her head shaved.

6 For if the woman’s (head is) not covered, let her also be shaved: But if it is disgraceful for a woman’s (hair) to be cut short or shaved, let her (also) be covered (in worship).

7 For truly a man 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 Because the man does not come from the woman: but the woman from the man.

9 Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man (as a helper comparable and fitting for him).

10 For this cause ought the woman to wear (a covering) authority on her head (while prophesying) because of the angels (example, who also exercised their ministering authority with their faces covered).

11 Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord (but all are one in Christ Jesus).

12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman, but all things (are Christ’s and Christ is) of God.

13 Judge among yourselves: is it fitting that a woman prays to God (with an) uncovered (head)?

14 Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it brings shame to him?

15 But if a woman has long hair, it brings glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

16 But if any man is inclined to be quarrelsome, we have no such custom (whereby a woman prophesies uncovered), neither (do) the churches of God.

17 Now in this (teaching) that I commanded you I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better, but for the worse.

18 For first of all, when you come together in your assembly, I hear that there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it.

19 Since (inevitably) there are also (destructive) heresies among you, so that they which (have not turned away from the faith but) are approved may be made manifest among you.

20 When you come together therefore into one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper (but to feed your own bellies).

21 For in eating (you are not thinking about the Lord’s body but rather) every one takes before the other his own supper: and indeed, one remains hungry, but another is drunken.

22 What!? Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? or do you despise the church of God, and shame them that have none? What should I say to you? Should I praise you for this? I do not praise you (at all).

23 For I have received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed (into the hands of sinful men) took bread:

24 And when He had given thanks (to the Father), He broke it, and said, Take and eat: this is My body, which is (the lamb God has provided that is) broken for you: do this in remembrance of (your union as one flesh with) Me.

25 After the same manner (with thanksgiving to the Father) after supper, He also took the cup, saying, This cup is the New Testament in My blood (which was shed to purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God): as often as you drink it, do it in remembrance of (your union as one flesh with) Me.

26 For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do proclaim the Lord's death (has saved you from your body of death) till he comes (in the redemption of your body immortal).

27 Therefore whoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily (considering His body and His blood a common thing), shall be guilty of (rejecting) the body and blood of the Lord (which was given for them).

28 But let every man examine himself (in His own heart), and so then let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup (worthily, seeing the lamb which God has provided for him to be joined as one flesh with His life).

29 For he that eats and drinks unworthily (considering it a common thing), eats and drinks damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body (was the lamb that God provided to divorce him from the body of death).

30 For this reason, many are weak and sickly (in the heart) among you (not considering themselves joined as one flesh with the Lord’s body and blood but only seeing the death in their mortal bodies), and many fall asleep (in death).

31 But if we would discern (our fellowship with the Lord’s body and blood for) ourselves, we should not be condemned.

32 For when we discern (the Lord’s body), we are corrected (in our hearts) of the Lord, so that we should not be condemned (along) with the world.

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

34 And if any man is hungry, let him eat at home; so that you do not (partake unworthily and) come together into condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.