1 Corinthians, 11

1. Take me as your pattern, just as I take Christ for mine.

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

2. I congratulate you for remembering me so consistently and for maintaining the traditions exactly as I passed them on to you.

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

3. But I should like you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

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. For any man to pray or to prophesy with his head covered shows disrespect for his head.

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

5. And for a woman to pray or prophesy with her head uncovered shows disrespect for her head; it is exactly the same as if she had her hair shaved off.

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.

6. Indeed, if a woman does go without a veil, she should have her hair cut off too; but if it is a shameful thing for a woman to have her hair cut off or shaved off, then she should wear a veil.

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.

7. But for a man it is not right to have his head covered, since he is the image of God and reflects God's glory; but woman is the reflection of man's glory.

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.

8. For man did not come from woman; no, woman came from man;

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

9. nor was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for the sake of man:

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

10. and this is why it is right for a woman to wear on her head a sign of the authority over her, because of the angels.

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

11. However, in the Lord, though woman is nothing without man, man is nothing without woman;

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

12. and though woman came from man, so does every man come from a woman, and everything comes from God.

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

13. Decide for yourselves: does it seem fitting that a woman should pray to God without a veil?

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

14. Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,

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

15. but when a woman has long hair, it is her glory? After all, her hair was given to her to be a covering.

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

16. If anyone wants to be contentious, I say that we have no such custom, nor do any of the churches of God.

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

17. Now that I am on the subject of instructions, I cannot congratulate you on the meetings you hold; they do more harm than good.

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.

18. In the first place, I hear that when you all come together in your assembly, there are separate factions among you, and to some extent I believe it.

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.

19. It is no bad thing, either, that there should be differing groups among you so that those who are to be trusted among you can be clearly recognised.

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

20. So, when you meet together, it is not the Lord's Supper that you eat;

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

21. for when the eating begins, each one of you has his own supper first, and there is one going hungry while another is getting drunk.

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

22. Surely you have homes for doing your eating and drinking in? Or have you such disregard for God's assembly that you can put to shame those who have nothing? What am I to say to you? Congratulate you? On this I cannot congratulate you.

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.

23. For the tradition I received from the Lord and also handed on to you is that on the night he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread,

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:

24. and after he had given thanks, he broke it, and he said, 'This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.'

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.

25. And in the same way, with the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Whenever you drink it, do this as a memorial 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.

26. Whenever you eat this bread, then, and drink this cup, you are proclaiming the Lord's death until he comes.

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

27. Therefore anyone who eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily is answerable for the body and blood of the Lord.

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.

28. Everyone is to examine himself and only then eat of the bread or drink from the cup;

28. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of [that] bread, and drink of [that] cup.

29. because a person who eats and drinks without recognising the body is eating and drinking his own condemnation.

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

30. That is why many of you are weak and ill and a good number have died.

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

31. If we were critical of ourselves we would not be condemned,

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

32. but when we are judged by the Lord, we are corrected by the Lord to save us from being condemned along with the world.

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

33. So then, my brothers, when you meet for the Meal, wait for each other;

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

34. anyone who is hungry should eat at home. Then your meeting will not bring your condemnation. The other matters I shall arrange when I come.

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.