[1] Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
[2] Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
[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.
[4] Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
[5] But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.
[6] For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to be have her hair cut off or shaved, let her be covered.
[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.
[8] For man is not from woman, but woman from man;
[9] for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.
[10] For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.
[11] Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
[12] For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.
[13] Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?
[14] Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
[15] But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.
[16] But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.
[17] But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.
[18] For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
[19] For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
[20] When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.
[21] For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.
[22] What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly, and put them to shame who don’t have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.
[23] For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.
[24] When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said,“Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”
[25] In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying,“This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”
[26] For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
[27] Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
[28] But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
[29] For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body.
[30] For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
[31] For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.
[32] But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
[33] Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
[34] But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.