¹ Be ye imitators of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.

² Now I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and retain my instructions the same as I spoke unto you.

³ But I would have you know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of the woman [is] the man, and the head of Christ [is] God.

⁴ Every man praying or prophesying, having [his] head covered, dishonours his head.

⁵ But every woman that prays or prophesies with [her] head uncovered dishonours her head, for that is even the same as if she were shaven.

⁶ For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn; but 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 [his] head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

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

⁹ Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

¹⁰ For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her head: because of the angels.

¹¹ Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

¹² For as the woman [is] of the man, even so [is] the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

¹³ Judge in yourselves: is it honest that a woman pray unto God uncovered?

¹⁴ Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man lets [his] hair grow, it is dishonest?

¹⁵ But if a woman lets [her] hair grow, it is a glory to her; for [her] hair is given her for a covering.

¹⁶ With all this, if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the church of God.

¹⁷ Now in this that I declare [unto you] I praise [you] not: that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

¹⁸ For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

¹⁹ For it is expedient that there also be heresies among you, so that those who are proved may become manifest among you.

²⁰ So that when ye come together in one [place, this] is not eating the Lord's supper.

²¹ For in eating, each one takes his own supper first: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

²² What? Do ye not have houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the church of God and shame those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise [you] not.

²³ For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took bread;

²⁴ and when he had given thanks, he broke [it] and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of me.

²⁵ After the same manner also [he took] the cup, after he had eaten supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood; do this each time that ye drink, in remembrance of me.

²⁶ For each time that ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye declare the Lord's death until he comes.

²⁷ Therefore whoever shall eat this bread and drink [this] cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

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

²⁹ For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

³⁰ For this cause many [are] weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

³¹ For if we would examine ourselves, we should not be judged.

³² But being judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

³³ Therefore, my brothers, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another.

³⁴ And if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home; that ye not come together unto judgment. And I will set the rest in order when I come.: