1 ¶ Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

2 N ow I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and retain my instructions the same as I spoke unto you.

3 B ut I would have you know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

4 E very man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonours his head.

5 B ut every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonours her head, for that is even the same as if she were shaven.

6 F or if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn; but if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

7 F or a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

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

9 N either was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

10 F or this cause the woman ought to have authority over her head: because of the angels.

11 N evertheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

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

13 J udge in yourselves: is it honest that a woman pray unto God uncovered?

14 D oes not even nature itself teach you that if a man lets his hair grow, it is dishonest?

15 B ut if a woman lets her hair grow, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given her for a covering.

16 W ith all this, if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the congregation of God.

17 ¶ Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not: that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

18 F or first of all, when ye come together in the congregation, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

19 F or it is expedient that there also be heresies among you, so that those who are proved may become manifest among you.

20 S o that when ye come together in one place, this is not eating the Lord’s supper.

21 F or in eating, each one takes his own supper first: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

22 W hat? Do ye not have houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the congregation of God and shame those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

23 ¶ For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread;

24 a nd when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of me.

25 A fter the same manner also he took the cup, after he had eaten supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood; do this each time that ye drink, in remembrance of me.

26 F or each time that ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye declare the Lord’s death until he comes.

27 T herefore whoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

28 B ut let each man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

29 F or he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.

30 F or this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

31 F or if we would examine ourselves, we should not be judged.

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

33 T herefore, my brothers, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another.

34 A nd if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home; that ye not come together unto judgment. And I will set the rest in order when I come.