Be imitators of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.
Now I praise you that in all things ye remember me, and hold fast the traditions according as I delivered [them] to you.
But I wish you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, and woman’s head the man, and the Christ’s head God.
Every man praying or prophesying with head covered shameth his head.
But every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered shameth her own head; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.
For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn; but if [it is] shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God’s image and glory; but the woman is man’s glory.
For man is not of woman, but woman of man.
For also man was not created on account of the woman, but woman on account of the man.
On this account ought the woman to have authority on her head on account of the angels.
However, neither [is] woman without man, nor man without woman, in [the] Lord;
for as the woman [is] of the man, so also [is] the man by the woman; but all things of God.
Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered?
Doth not even nature itself teach you that, if man have long hair, it is a dishonour to him; but if woman have long hair, it is a glory to her?
Because the hair hath been given her instead of a veil.
But if anyone seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor yet the assemblies of God.
Now in enjoining this I praise [you] not, because ye come together not for the better but for the worse.
For first, when ye come together in an assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and in some measure, I believe [it]:
for there must be even sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you.
When therefore ye come together into the same [place], there is no eating of [the] Lord’s supper.
For each in eating taketh his own supper before [others]; and one is hungry, and another drinketh excessively.
Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or despise ye the church of God, and put shame on those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this I do not praise.
For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was being delivered up, took bread;
and, having given thanks, he brake [it], and said, This is my body, which [is] for you: this do in remembrance of me.
In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink [it], in remembrance of me.
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord till he come.
Wherefore whosoever eateth the bread, or drinketh the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty as to the body and the blood of the Lord.
But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
For he that eateth and drinketh eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body.
For this cause many [are] weak and sickly among you, and rather many are falling asleep.
But if we were discerning ourselves, we should not be judged;
but when judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
Wherefore, my brethren, when coming together to eat, wait for each other.
If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for judgment. But the rest will I arrange when I come.