1 B e imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

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

3 B ut 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.

4 E very man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head.

5 B ut 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.

6 F or 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.

7 F or 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.

8 F or man does not originate from woman, but woman from man;

9 f or indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake.

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

11 H owever, in the Lord, neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

12 F or as the woman originates from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and all things originate from God.

13 J udge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

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

15 b ut if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

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

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

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

19 F or there must also be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you.

20 T herefore when you meet together, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper,

21 f or in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk.

22 W hat! 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. The Lord’s Supper

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 betrayed took bread;

24 a nd when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

25 I n 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.”

26 F or as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

27 T herefore 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.

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

29 F or he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly.

30 F or this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.

31 B ut if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged.

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

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

34 I f 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.