1 Followers of me become you, as I also am of Christ.
2 And I praise you, brethren, that in all things you remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances you keep,
3 and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, having the head covered, does dishonour his head,
5 and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, does dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven,
6 for if a woman is not covered -- then let her be shorn, and if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven -- let her be covered;
7 for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,
8 for a man is not of a woman, but a woman is of a man,
9 for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;
10 because of this the woman ought to have a token of authority upon the head, because of the messengers;
11 but neither is a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,
12 for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, and the all things are of God.
13 In your own selves judge you; is it seemly for a woman uncovered to pray to God?
14 does not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?
15 and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering has been given to her;
16 and if any one does think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.
17 And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse you come together;
18 for first, indeed, you coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe it,
19 for it behooves sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;
20 you, then, coming together at the same place -- it is not to eat the Lord's supper;
21 for each his own supper does take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;
22 why, have you not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do you despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!
23 For I -- I received from the Lord that which also I did deliver to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,
24 and having given thanks, he brake, and said, 'Take you, eat you, this is my body, that for you is being broken; this do you -- to the remembrance of me.'
25 In like manner also the cup after the supping, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood; this do you, as often as you may drinkit -- to the remembrance of me;'
26 for as often as you may eat this bread, and this cup may drink, the death of the Lord you do show forth -- till he may come;
27 so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord:
28 and let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink;
29 for he who is eating and drinking unworthily, judgment to himself he does eat and drink -- not discerning the body of the Lord.
30 Because of this, among you many are weak and sickly, and sleep do many;
31 for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,
32 and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;
33 so then, my brethren, coming together to eat, for one another wait you;
34 and if any one is hungry, at home let him eat, that to judgment you may not come together; and the rest, whenever I may come, I shall arrange.