11:1  Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

11:2  Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

11:3  But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

11:4  Every man who has {something} on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head.

11:5  But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved.

11:6  For if a woman does not cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her cover her head.

11:7  For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.

11:8  For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man;

11:9  for indeed man was not created for the woman's sake, but woman for the man's sake.

11:10  Therefore the woman ought to have {a symbol of} authority on her head, because of the angels.

11:11  However, in the Lord, neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

11:12  For as the woman originates from the man, so also the man {has his birth} through the woman; and all things originate from God.

11:13  Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God {with her head} uncovered?

11:14  Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,

11:15  but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

11:16  But if one is inclined to be contentious, we have no other practice, nor have the churches of God.

11:17  But in giving this instruction, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

11:18  For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and in part I believe it.

11:19  For there must also be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you.

11:20  Therefore when you meet together, it is not to eat the Lord's Supper,

11:21  for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk.

11:22  What! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? 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 will not praise you.

11:23  For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread;

11:24  and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me."

11:25  In the same way {He took} the cup also after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink {it,} in remembrance of Me."

11:26  For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.

11:27  Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

11:28  But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

11:29  For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly.

11:30  For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.

11:31  But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged.

11:32  But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world.

11:33  So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

11:34  If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you will not come together for judgment. The remaining matters I will arrange when I come.