1 B e my imitators, even as I also of Christ.

2 N ow I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.

3 B ut I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head the man, and the Christ's head God.

4 E very man praying or prophesying, having on his head, puts his head to shame.

5 B ut every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved.

6 F or if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered.

7 F or man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory.

8 F or man is not of woman, but woman of man.

9 F or also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.

10 T herefore ought the woman to have authority on her head, on account of the angels.

11 H owever, neither woman without man, nor man without woman, in Lord.

12 F or as the woman of the man, so also the man by the woman, but all things of God.

13 J udge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered?

14 D oes not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?

15 B ut woman, if she have long hair, glory to her; for the long hair is given in lieu of a veil.

16 B ut if any one think to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God.

17 B ut prescribing this, I do not praise, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

18 F or first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit.

19 F or there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you.

20 W hen ye come therefore together into one place, it is not to eat Lord's supper.

21 F or each one in eating takes his own supper before, and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.

22 H ave ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this I do not praise.

23 F or I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,

24 a nd having given thanks broke, and said, This is my body, which for you: this do in remembrance of me.

25 I n like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye shall drink, in remembrance of me.

26 F or as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come.

27 S o that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord.

28 B ut let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

29 F or eater and drinker eats and drinks judgment to himself, not distinguishing the body.

30 O n this account many among you weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep.

31 B ut if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged.

32 B ut being judged, we are disciplined of Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

33 S o that, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another.

34 I f any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for judgment. But the other things, whenever I come, I will set in order.