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[1]Beye followers of me, even as I am of Christ.
[2]Nowbrethren, I commend you, that ye remember all my things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
[3]ButI will that ye know, that Christ is the head of every man: and the man is the woman's head: and God is Christ's head.
[4]Everyman praying or prophesying having any thing on his head, dishonoreth his head.
[5]Butevery woman that prayeth or prophesieth bareheaded, dishonoreth her head: for it is even one very thing, as though she were shaven.
[6]Thereforeif the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: and if it be shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
[7]Fora man ought not to cover his head: for as much as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
[8]Forthe man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.
[9]Forthe man was not created for the woman's sake: but the woman for the man's sake.
[10]Thereforeought the woman to have power on her head, because of the Angels.
[11]Nevertheless,neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord.
[12]Foras the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman: but all things are of God.
[13]Judgein yourselves, Is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
[14]Doesnot nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
[15]Butif a woman have long hair, it is a praise unto her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
[16]Butif any man lust to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the Churches of God.
[17]Now in this that I declare, I praise you not, that you come together, not with profit, but with hurt.
[18]Forfirst of all, when ye come together in the Church, I hear that there are dissentions among you: and I believe it to be true in some part.
[19]Forthere must be heresies even among you, that they which are approved among you, might be known.
[20]Whenye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper.
[21]Forevery man when they should eat, taketh his own supper afore, and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
[22]Haveye not houses to eat and to drink in? despise ye the Church of God, and shame them that have not? what shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
[23]ForI have received of the Lord that which I also have delivered unto you, to wit, That the Lord Jesus in the night that he was betrayed, took bread.
[24]Andwhen he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do ye in remembrance of me.
[25]Afterthe same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the New Testament in my blood: this do as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
[26]Foras often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye show the Lord's death till he come.
[27]Wherefore,whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
[28]Leta man therefore examine himself, and so let him eat of this bread, and drink of this cup.
[29]Forhe that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh his own damnation, because he discerneth not the Lord's body.
[30]Forthis cause many are weak, and sick among you, and many sleep.
[31]Forif we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
[32]Butwhen we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, because we should not be condemned with the world.
[33]Wherefore,my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
[34]Andif any man be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye come not together unto condemnation. Other things will I set in order when I come.
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