1. Be followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2. Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things, and hold to the instructions, 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 that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head: for that is even the same as if she were shaven.
6. For if the woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off: but if it is a shame for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaven, let her be covered.
7. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, seeing that he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
8. For the man is not from the woman; but the woman from the man.
9. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
10. For this reason ought the woman to have a symbol of authority on her head because of the angels.
11. Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.
12. For as the woman is from the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things are from God.
13. Judge for yourselves: is it suitable that a woman prays to God uncovered?
14. Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a shame 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 anyone seems inclined to dispute, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.
17. Now in this that I now declare to you I do not 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 church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
19. For there must also be heresies among you, that those who are approved may be made known among you.
20. When you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.
21. For in eating every one has his own supper before the other: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
22. What? Do you not have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.
23. For I have received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
24. And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had eaten, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
26. For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till he comes.
27. Therefore whoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
29. For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
30. For this reason many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
31. For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.
32. But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
33. Therefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
34. And if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home; so that you do not come together for condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.