11:1 Imitate me, just as I also imitate 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 serves as the head of every man, and the man serves as the head of a woman, and God serves as 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 behaves the same as the woman who shaves her head. |
11:6 For if a woman does not cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off; but if it seems 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 reflects the image and glory of God; but the woman reflects the glory of man. |
11:8 For man does not derive from woman, but woman from man; |
11:9 for indeed man did not become 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 does woman make herself independent of man, nor does man make himself 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: does it seem 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 dishonors him, |
11:15 but if a woman has long hair, it glorifies her? For her hair serves as her covering. |
11:16 But if one feels inclined to act contentiously, 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 develop factions among you, so that those who God approves may become evident among you. |
11:20 Therefore when you meet together, you do not do so to eat the Lord's Supper, |
11:21 for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one feels hungry and another gets 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 suffered betrayal took bread; |
11:24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "This represents My body, which I give for you; do this in remembrance of Me." |
11:25 In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, "This cup represents 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 have guilt of the body and the blood of the Lord. |
11:28 But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he will 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 have become weak and sick, and a number sleep. |
11:31 But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not receive judgment. |
11:32 But when we receive judgment, we receive discipline by the Lord so that we will not receive condemnation along with the world. |
11:33 So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. |
11:34 If anyone hungers, let him eat at home, so that you will not come together for judgment The remaining matters I will arrange when I come. |