MKJV - I Corinthians - 11

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

11:2  But I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and you keep the doctrines 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 praying or prophesying with his head covered dishonors his Head.

11:5  But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head; for that is even the same as if she were shaved.

11:6  For if the woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn. But if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.

11:7  For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, 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  Nor was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

11:10  For this reason the woman ought to have authority on her head because of the angels.

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

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

11:13  Judge among yourselves: is it right that a woman pray to God unveiled?

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

11:15  But if a woman should have long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her in place of a veil.

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

11:17  But in enjoining this, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better, but for the worse.

11:18  For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it.

11:19  For there must also be heresies among you, that the approved ones may be revealed among you.

11:20  Therefore when you come together into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.

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

11:22  For do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who do not have? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you for 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 giving thanks, He broke it and said, "Take, eat; this is My body, which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of Me."

11:25  In the same way He took the cup also, after supping, saying, "This cup is the New Covenant in My blood; as often as you drink it, do this in remembrance of Me."

11:26  For "as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you show" the Lord's death until He shall come.

11:27  So that whoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, he will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

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

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

11:30  For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and many sleep.

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

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

11:33  So that, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

11:34  But if anyone hungers, let him eat at home, so that you do not come together to condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.