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1 Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you because you remember me in everything, and you hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.
3 Now I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.
4 Every man who prays or prophesies, having something on his head, dishonors his head.
5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as having her head shaved.
6 For if a woman does not cover her head, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or for her head to be shaved, let her cover her head.
7 For a man ought not to have his head covered, being the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of man.
8 For man is not from woman. Instead, woman is from man.
9 For man was not created for the woman, but woman for the man.
10 This is why the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.
11 Nevertheless, in the Lord, woman is not independent from man, nor is man independent from woman.
12 For as the woman is from the man, so also the man is through the woman: but all things are from God.
13 Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
14 Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for him?
15 But if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her long hair has been given to her as a covering.
16 But if anyone wants to be contentious about this, we do not have any other practice, nor do the churches of God.
17 But in the following instructions, I do not praise you, for you come together, not for the better, but for the worse.
18 For in the first place, I hear that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
19 For there must in fact be factions among you, so that also those who are approved may become evident among you.
20 For when you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord’ s Supper.
21 For when it is time to eat, each one takes his own supper first; and this one is indeed hungry, and that one is drunk.
22 For do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you for this? I will not praise you!
23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was betrayed, took bread,
24 and after he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance 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 it, in remembance of me.”
26 For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’ s death until he comes.
27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
28 But let a person examine himself, and in this way let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
29 For he who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment to himself.
30 That is why many among you are weak and ill, and many of you have fallen asleep.
31 But if we examine ourselves, we would not be judged.
32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined, so that we would not be condemned along with the world.
33 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
34 If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you might not come together for judgment. And about the other things you wrote, I will give directions as soon as I come.
The First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians