Worsley - I Corinthians - 11

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

11:2  Now I commend you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

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

11:4  Every man praying or prophesying, having a veil on his head, dishonoureth Him who is his head.

11:5  But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoureth man her head; for it is even all one as if she were shaved.

11:6  For if a woman be not covered, she may as well be shorn: but if it be shameful to a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

11:7  For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, he being the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

11:8  For the man was not of the woman; but the woman was taken out of the man:

11:9  nor was the man created for the sake of the woman, but the woman for the man.

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

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

11:12  For as the woman was originally from the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are from God.

11:13  Judge in yourselves, Is it decent for a woman to pray to God uncovered?

11:14  Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if 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; because the hair was given her as for a veil.

11:16  But if any one is pleased to contend for the contrary, I answer, We have no such custom, nor any of the churches of God.

11:17  But whilst I am declaring this, I do not commend you, that ye assemble together not for the better, but for the worse.

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

11:19  For there must be even heresies among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you.

11:20  When therefore ye thus assemble together, this is not eating the Lord's supper:

11:21  for in eating every one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry, and another is glutted.

11:22  What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the church of God, and shame those that 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, that which I also delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which He was betrayed took bread:

11:24  and gave thanks, and brake it, and said, "Take and eat; this is my body, which is going to be broken for you: this do in remembrance of me."

11:25  And in the same manner He took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant ratified in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink of it, in remembrance of me."

11:26  As often then as ye eat of this bread, and drink of this cup, ye commemorate the Lord's death till he come.

11:27  So that whosoever eateth this bread, or drinketh of the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of profaning the body and 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 eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgement against himself, not distinguishing the Lord's body.

11:30  For this many among you are weak and infirm, and several are fallen asleep.

11:31  If then we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged:

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

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

11:34  and if any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together to your condemnation. And as to other things, I will set them in order when I come.