Read 1 Corinthians 11

World English Bible · 34 verses

1. ¹ Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaved, let her be covered.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ For man is not from woman, but woman from man;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ But in giving you this command I don’t praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ In the same way he also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
26. ²⁶ For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
27. ²⁷ Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
28. ²⁸ But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
29. ²⁹ For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
30. ³⁰ For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
31. ³¹ For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
32. ³² But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
33. ³³ Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
34. ³⁴ But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org