Anderson - I Corinthians - 11

11:1  Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

11:2  Now, I praise you, brethren, because you remember me in all things, and keep the traditions as I delivered them to you.

11:3  But I wish you to 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.

11:4  Every man that prays or prophesies, having his head covered, dishonors his head.

11:5  But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered, dishonors her head: for it is one and the same as if she was shaved.

11:6  For if a woman has no vail on, let her also be shaved. But if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her have a vail.

11:7  For a man ought not to vail his head, because he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

11:8  For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man:

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

11:10  For this reason ought the woman to have a token of subjection on her head, on account of the angels.

11:11  But neither is the woman without the man, nor the: man without the woman, in the Lord.

11:12  For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman; but all things are of God.

11:13  Judge in yourselves, whether it is becoming that a woman pray to God unvailed.

11:14  Does not nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

11:15  But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a vail.

11:16  But if any one seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor have the churches of God.

11:17  But I praise you not in this, which I now mention, that you come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

11:18  For, in the first place, when you come together in the church, I hear that there are schisms among you, and I partly believe it:

11:19  for there must be sects among you, that the approved may be made known among you.

11:20  When, therefore, you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord’s supper;

11:21  for each one, in eating, takes before another, his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

11:22  What, have you not houses in which to eat and drink? or do you despise the church of God, and put those to shame who have nothing to eat? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

11:23  For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: That the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was delivered up, took bread;

11:24  and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said: Take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of me.

11:25  In like manner also, the cup, after he had supped, saying: This cup is the new covenant in my blood: do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

11:26  For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do show the Lord’s death till he come.

11:27  Wherefore he that eats this bread, or drinks this cup of the Lord, in an improper manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

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

11:29  for he that eats and drinks in an improper manner, eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.

11:30  For this reason, many among you are weak and sick, and many sleep.

11:31  For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged;

11:32  but being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

11:33  Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another:

11:34  and if any one is hungry, let him eat at home, that you come not together for condemnation. But other things I will set in order when I come.