ACV - I Corinthians - 11

11:1  Become ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

11:2  Now I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and keep the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

11:3  But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

11:4  Every man praying or prophesying having something upon his head dishonors his head.

11:5  But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is one and the same thing as the woman who has been shaven.

11:6  For if a woman is not covered, let her also shear herself. But if it is an ugly thing for a woman to shear herself or be shaven, she should be covered.

11:7  For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory of God, but woman is a glory of man.

11:8  For man is not from woman, but woman from man.

11:9  For also man was not created for the woman, but woman for the man.

11:10  Because of this the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of the agents.

11:11  Nevertheless, neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord.

11:12  For just as the woman is from the man, so also the man is through the woman. But all things are from God.

11:13  Judge ye among yourselves, is it proper for a woman to pray to God uncovered?

11:14  Or does not nature itself teach you that if a man actually wears long hair it is a disgrace to him?

11:15  But if a woman wears long hair, it is a glory to her, because her hair has been given for a cloak.

11:16  But if any man appears to be a lover of strife, we have no such custom, nor the congregations of God.

11:17  Now in this that is commanded, I do not praise you, because ye do not assemble for the better but for the worse.

11:18  For indeed first, when ye come together in a congregation, I hear divisions are present among you, and I partly believe it.

11:19  For there must also be factions among you, so that the genuine may become apparent among you.

11:20  When therefore ye come together in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

11:21  For each man proceeds to eat his own meal, and one is hungry and another is drunken.

11:22  For have ye no houses to eat and to drink in? Or do ye disparage the church of God, and humiliate those not having? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

11:23  For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

11:24  and having expressed thanks, he broke in pieces, and said, Take ye, eat, this is my body broken for you. This do ye for my memorial.

11:25  Likewise also the cup after the supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. This do, as often as ye drink it, for my memorial.

11:26  For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

11:27  Therefore whoever may eat this bread or drink the cup of the Lord unworthily of the Lord, will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

11:28  But let a man examine himself, and let him so eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

11:29  For he who eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.

11:30  Because of this many are weak and sickly among you, and a considerable sleep.

11:31  But if we were discerning ourselves we would not be judged.

11:32  But when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned with the world.

11:33  Therefore, my brothers, when ye come together to eat, await each other.

11:34  And if any man is hungry, let him eat at home so that ye may not come together for condemnation. And the rest I will set in order as soon as I come.