LO - I Corinthians - 11

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

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

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

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

11:5  And every woman who prays, or prophesies, with her head uncovered, dishonors her head. Besides, it is one and the same, with being shaved.

11:6  Wherefore, if a woman be not vailed, even let her be shorn: but, if it be shame for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be vailed.

11:7  Now, man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.

11:8  Besides the man is not of the woman; but the woman is of the man.

11:9  And, also, 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 vail on her head, on account of the messengers.

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

11:12  Besides, as the woman is from the man, so also, the man is by the woman; but all from God.

11:13  Judge in yourselves, is it decent that a woman pray to God unvailed?

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

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

11:16  However, if any one resolve to be contentious, we have no such custom; neither the congregations of God.

11:17  Now, in declaring this, that you come together, not for the better, but for the worse, I do not praise you.

11:18  For, first, indeed, I hear, that when you come together in the congregation, there are schisms among you; and I partly believe it.

11:19  For there must even be sects among you, that the approved among you may be made manifest.

11:20  But your coming together into one place, is not to eat the Lord's supper.

11:21  For, in eating it, every one takes first his own supper; and one, indeed, is hungry, and another is filled.

11:22  What! have you not houses, to eat and to drink in? or, do you despise the congregation of God and put to shame those who have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this, I praise you not.

11:23  For I received from the Lord what, also, I delivered to you; that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which we was betrayed, took a loaf;

11:24  and, having 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 institution in my blood: do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

11:26  For as often as you eat this loaf, and drink this cup, you openly publish the death of the Lord, until he come.

11:27  So, then, whosoever shall eat this loaf, and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

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

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

11:30  For this cause, many among you are weak and sick, and a considerable number are fallen asleep.

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

11:32  Yet, when we are judged by the Lord, we are corrected, that we may not be condemned with the world.

11:33  Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for each other.

11:34  And if any one hunger, let him eat at home, that you may not come together for judgment. And the other things I will set in order when I come.