1 F ollowers of me become ye, as I also of Christ.

2 A nd I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep,

3 a nd I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

4 E very man praying or prophesying, having the head covered, doth dishonour his head,

5 a nd every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, doth dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven,

6 f or if a woman is not covered -- then let her be shorn, and if a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven -- let her be covered;

7 f or a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,

8 f or a man is not of a woman, but a woman of a man,

9 f or a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;

10 b ecause of this the woman ought to have authority upon the head, because of the messengers;

11 b ut neither a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,

12 f or as the woman of the man, so also the man through the woman, and the all things of God.

13 I n your own selves judge ye; is it seemly for a woman uncovered to pray to God?

14 d oth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?

15 a nd a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her;

16 a nd if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.

17 A nd this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together;

18 f or first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe,

19 f or it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;

20 y e, then, coming together at the same place -- it is not to eat the Lord's supper;

21 f or each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;

22 w hy, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!

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

24 a nd having given thanks, he brake, and said, `Take ye, eat ye, this is my body, that for you is being broken; this do ye -- to the remembrance of me.'

25 I n like manner also the cup after the supping, saying, `This cup is the new covenant in my blood; this do ye, as often as ye may drink -- to the remembrance of me;'

26 f or as often as ye may eat this bread, and this cup may drink, the death of the Lord ye do shew forth -- till he may come;

27 s o that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord:

28 a nd let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink;

29 f or he who is eating and drinking unworthily, judgment to himself he doth eat and drink -- not discerning the body of the Lord.

30 B ecause of this, among you many weak and sickly, and sleep do many;

31 f or if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,

32 a nd being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;

33 s o then, my brethren, coming together to eat, for one another wait ye;

34 a nd if any one is hungry, at home let him eat, that to judgment ye may not come together; and the rest, whenever I may come, I shall arrange.