1 Corinthians, 11

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

1. Be imitators of me, as I 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. I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I have 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 want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is her husband, 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. Any man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors 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 any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head -- it is the same as if her head 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 a woman will not veil herself, then she should cut off her hair; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her wear a veil.

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 ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.

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

8. (For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.

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

9. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for 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. That is why a woman ought to have a veil 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, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;

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

12. for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.)

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

13. Judge for yourselves; is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

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

14. Does not nature itself teach you that for a man to wear long hair is degrading to 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 has long hair, it is her pride? For her hair is given to 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. If any one is disposed to be contentious, we recognize no other practice, nor do 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. But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is 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, in the first place, when you assemble as a church, I hear that there are 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 factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.

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

20. When you meet together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.

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, each one goes ahead with his own meal, and one is hungry and another is drunk.

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! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will 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 received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when 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 broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this 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. In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you 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 you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

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. Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning 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. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

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

29. For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.

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

30. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

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

31. But if we judged ourselves truly, 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 by the Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

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

33. So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one 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. if any one is hungry, let him eat at home -- lest you come together to be condemned. About the other things I will give directions when I come.