1 Corinthians, 11

1. Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.

1. Follow my example as I follow the example of Christ.

2. Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered [them] to you.

2. I praise you because you remember me in everything, and you keep the traditions that I have given 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.

3. However I wish to remind you that every man has Christ as his head, while the wife has her husband as her head; and God is the head of Christ.

4. Every man praying or prophesying, having [his] head covered, dishonoureth his head.

4. If a man prays or prophesies with his head covered, he dishonors his head.

5. But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with [her] head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

5. On the contrary, the woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered, does not respect her head. She might as well cut her hair.

6. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

6. If a woman does not use a veil, let her cut her hair; and if it is a shame for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved, then let her use a veil.

7. For a man indeed ought not to cover [his] head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

7. Men do not need to cover their head, for they are the image of God and reflect his glory, while a woman reflects the glory of man.

8. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

8. Man was not formed from woman, but woman from man.

9. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

9. Nor did God create man for woman, but woman for man.

10. For this cause ought the woman to have power on [her] head because of the angels.

10. Therefore, a woman must respect the angels and have on her head the sign of her dependence.

11. Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

11. Anyway, the Christian attitude does not separate man from woman, and woman from man,

12. For as the woman [is] of the man, even so [is] the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

12. and if God has created woman from man, man is born from woman and both come from God.

13. Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?

13. Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray without a veil?

14. Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?

14. Common sense teaches us that it is shameful for a man to wear long hair,

15. But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for [her] hair is given her for a covering.

15. while long hair is the pride of a woman, and it has been given to her precisely as a veil.

16. But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

16. If some of you want to argue, let it be known that it is not our custom nor the custom in the churches of God.

17. Now in this that I declare [unto you] I praise [you] not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

17. To continue with my advice, I cannot praise you, for your gatherings are not for the better but for the worse.

18. For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

18. First, as I have heard, when you gather together, there are divisions among you and I partly believe it.

19. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

19. There may have to be different groups among you, so that it plainly appears who are approved among you.

20. When ye come together therefore into one place, [this] is not to eat the Lord's supper.

20. Your gatherings are no longer the Supper of the Lord,

21. For in eating every one taketh before [other] his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

21. for each one eats at once his own food and while one is hungry, the other is getting drunk.

22. What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or 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.

22. Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or perhaps you despise the Church of God and desire to humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say? Shall I praise you? For this I cannot praise you.

23. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took bread:

23. This is the tradition of the Lord that I received and that in my turn I have handed on to you; the Lord Jesus, on the night that he was delivered up, took bread and,

24. And when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

24. after giving thanks, broke it, saying, "This is my body which is broken for you; do this in memory of me."

25. After the same manner also [he took] the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink [it], in remembrance of me.

25. In the same manner, taking the cup after the supper, he said, "This cup is the new Covenant in my blood. Whenever you drink it, do it in memory of me."

26. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

26. So, then, whenever you eat of this bread and drink from this cup, you are proclaiming the death of the Lord until he comes.

27. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink [this] cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

27. Therefore, if anyone eats of the bread or drinks from the cup of the Lord unworthily, he sins against 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.

28. Let each one, then, examine himself before eating of the bread and drinking from the cup.

29. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

29. Otherwise, he eats and drinks his own condemnation in not recognizing the Body.

30. For this cause many [are] weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

30. This is the reason why so many among you are sick and weak and several have died.

31. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

31. If we examined and corrected ourselves, the Lord would not have to exercise judgment against us.

32. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

32. The Lord's strokes are to correct us, so that we may not be condemned with this world.

33. Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

33. So then, brothers, when you gather for a meal, wait for one another

34. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

34. and, if someone is hungry, let him eat in his own house. In this way you will not gather for your common condemnation. The other instructions I shall give when I go there.