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[1]Followers of me become ye, as I also [am] of Christ.
[2]And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep,
[3]and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.
[4]Every man praying or prophesying, having the head covered, doth dishonour his head,
[5]and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, doth dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven,
[6]for if a woman is not covered -- then let her be shorn, and if [it is] a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven -- let her be covered;
[7]for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,
[8]for a man is not of a woman, but a woman [is] of a man,
[9]for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;
[10]because of this the woman ought to have [a token of] authority upon the head, because of the messengers;
[11]but neither [is] a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,
[12]for as the woman [is] of the man, so also the man [is] through the woman, and the all things [are] of God.
[13]In your own selves judge ye; is it seemly for a woman uncovered to pray to God?
[14]doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?
[15]and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her;
[16]and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.
[17]And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together;
[18]for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe [it],
[19]for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;
[20]ye, then, coming together at the same place -- it is not to eat the Lord's supper;
[21]for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;
[22]why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!
[23]For I -- I received from the Lord that which also I did deliver to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,
[24]and having given thanks, he brake, and said, `Take ye, eat ye, this is my body, that for you is being broken; this do ye -- to the remembrance of me.'
[25]In like manner also the cup after the supping, saying, `This cup is the new covenant in my blood; this do ye, as often as ye may drink [it] -- to the remembrance of me;'
[26]for as often as ye may eat this bread, and this cup may drink, the death of the Lord ye do shew forth -- till he may come;
[27]so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord:
[28]and let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink;
[29]for he who is eating and drinking unworthily, judgment to himself he doth eat and drink -- not discerning the body of the Lord.
[30]Because of this, among you many [are] weak and sickly, and sleep do many;
[31]for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,
[32]and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;
[33]so then, my brethren, coming together to eat, for one another wait ye;
[34]and if any one is hungry, at home let him eat, that to judgment ye may not come together; and the rest, whenever I may come, I shall arrange.
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