¹ BE ye imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

² Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the injunctions as I delivered them unto you.

³ But I desire you to take notice that the head of every man is Christ; but the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

⁴ Every man praying or prophesying, holding a veil over his head, dishonoureth his head;

⁵ but every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled, dishonoureth her head; for it is one and the same thing, as if she were shaven.

⁶ For if the woman be not veiled, let her hair be clipped: but if it would be scandalous for a woman to appear clipped or shaved, let her be veiled.

⁷ For a man indeed ought not to veil his head, being the image and the glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

⁸ For the man is not from the woman, but the woman from the man.

⁹ Also the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

¹⁰ Therefore ought the woman to retain upon her head this badge of authority, because of the angels of the churches.

¹¹ Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man in the Lord.

¹² For as the woman was taken out of the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are of God.

¹³ Judge among yourselves, is it decent for a woman to be praying to God without a covering?

¹⁴ Does not even nature itself teach you, that if a man wear long flowing hair it is a dishonour to him?

¹⁵ But if a woman let her hair flow, it is an ornament to her; for the hair was given her for a covering,

¹⁶ But if any man mean to be contentious about it, we have no such custom, nor the churches of God.

¹⁷ But in the matter I am going to denounce, I do not commend you, that ye meet together not for the better, but for the worse.

¹⁸ For in the first place, when ye assemble in the church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

¹⁹ For there must be heresies among you, that they who are the tried ones, may be made manifest among you.

²⁰ When therefore ye assemble in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord’s supper.

²¹ For one in the eating it taketh before another his own supper: and one is hungry, and another drinks to excess.

²² What! have ye not houses to eat in and to drink? or despise ye the church of God, and make those ashamed who have none? What shall I say unto you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

²³ For I received of the Lord what also I delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was betrayed, took a loaf:

²⁴ and when he had blessed it, he brake it, and said, Take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you: do this in remembrance of me.

²⁵ In like manner also he took the cup, after they had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

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

²⁷ Wherefore, whosoever eateth of this bread, or drinketh the cup of the Lord unworthily, he is guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

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

²⁹ For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh condemnation to himself, not distinguishing the Lord’s body.

³⁰ For this cause many are diseased and infirm among you, and some asleep in death.

³¹ For if we thoroughly judged ourselves, we should not be judged of the Lord.

³² But being judged, we are corrected by the Lord, that we might not be condemned with the world.

³³ Wherefore, when ye meet together to eat the Lord’s supper, wait for one another.

³⁴ And if any man be hungry, let him eat at home; that ye meet not together for condemnation. And the other matters I will regulate when I come.