Godbey - I Corinthians - 11

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

11:2  But I praise you because you remember me in all things, and hold fast the commandments, as I delivered them unto you.

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

11:4  Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.

11:5  But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head: for that is one and the same to her being shaven.

11:6  If a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it is a disgrace for a woman to be shorn or shaven; let her be covered.

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

11:8  For the man is not from the woman; but the woman is from the man;

11:9  for man indeed was not created on account of the woman; but the woman on account of the man.

11:10  Therefore the woman ought to have authority on her head, on account of the angels.

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

11:12  For as the woman is from the man, so the man also is by the woman; and all things from God.

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

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

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

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

11:17  And proclaiming this, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

11:18  For in the first place, indeed you coming together, I hear that there are schisms among you; and I in part believe it.

11:19  For it behooves that heresies should indeed be among you, in order that the approved may be made manifest among you.

11:20  Therefore you coming together, it is not to eat the Lord's supper:

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

11:22  For have you not houses in which to eat and to drink? or do you cast contempt on the church of God, and shame those not having? What do I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

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

11:24  and having given thanks, broke it, and said; This is my body, which is for you: do this in remembrance of me.

11:25  Likewise also the cup, after supper, saying; This cup is the new covenant in my blood: do this, as often as you may drink it, in remembrance of me.

11:26  For as often as you may eat this bread, and drink the cup, you do proclaim the death of the Lord, until he may come.

11:27  So whosoever may eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, 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 the bread and drink of the cup;

11:29  for the one eating and drinking, net discerning the body, eats and drinks condemnation to himself.

11:30  Therefore many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

11:31  But if we judged ourselves, we would not be judged:

11:32  But being judged, by the Lord we are chastised, in order that we may not be condemned along with the world.

11:33  So, my brethren, coming together to eat, wait for one another.

11:34  If one is hungry let him eat at home; in order that you may not come together unto condemnation. But I will set in order the remaining things when I may come.