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.