Roles in Worship

1Be imitators of me, as I also am of Christ.

2Now I commend you⁺† because you⁺ have remembered me in all things, and you⁺ hold fast the traditions just as I delivered them to you⁺. 3But I want you⁺ to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

4Every man praying or prophesying having anything on his head dishonors his head. 5And every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered dishonors her head; for it is one and the same with having been shaven. 6For if a woman does not cover her head, also let her be shorn. And if it is shameful to a woman to be shorn or to be shaven, let her cover her head.

7For indeed a man ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God; but the woman† is the glory of man. 8For man is not of woman, but woman of man. 9For also man was not created because of the woman, but woman because of the man. 10Because of this, the woman ought to have authority on† the head, because of the angels.

11However, neither is woman apart from man, nor man apart from woman† in the Lord. 12For just as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman. And all things are of God.

13Judge in yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God uncovered? 14Does not even nature itself teach you⁺ that indeed if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, 15but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For the long hair instead of a covering is given to her.† 16Now if anyone thinks to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

Sharing in the Lord’s Supper
(Matthew 26:20–30; Mark 14:17–26; Luke 22:14–23)

17Now in this instructing, I do not praise you, because not for the better, but for the worse, do you⁺ come together. 18For first indeed, on your⁺ coming together in an assembly, I hear there to be divisions among you⁺, and in part I believe it. 19For also it is necessary for there to be factions among you⁺, so that also the ones approved should become evident among you⁺.

20Therefore, on your⁺ coming together in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord’s supper. 21For in eating, each takes first his own supper.† And indeed this one is hungry, but that one is drunk. 22What! Have you⁺ no houses in which to eat and to drink? Or do you⁺ despise the church of God and put to shame those not having? What shall I say to you⁺? Shall I praise you⁺? In this I do not praise you!

23For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you⁺, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which He was delivered up, took bread, 24and having given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you⁺;† do this to the remembrance of Me.” 25Likewise also the cup after having supped, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you⁺ may drink it, to the remembrance of Me.” 26For as often as you⁺ may eat this bread and may drink the cup, you⁺ proclaim the death of the Lord until He should come.

27Therefore, whoever may eat the bread† or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily† will be guilty of the† body and of the blood of the Lord. 28But let a man examine himself, and thus let him eat of the bread, and let him drink of the cup. 29For the one eating and drinking,† not discerning the body,† eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30Because of this, many are weak and sick among you⁺, and many are fallen asleep.

31For if we were discerning of ourselves, we would not be being judged. 32But being judged by the Lord, we are disciplined, so that we should not be condemned with the world.

33So then, my brothers, in coming together in order to eat, wait for one another. 34If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you⁺ may not come together for judgment; and I will prescribe the other things as soon as I shall come.

Footnotes:

2 BYZ and TR include brothers.
7 BYZ and TR but woman
10 Or have a sign of authority on
11 BYZ and TR neither is man apart from, nor is woman apart from man
15 BYZ does not include to her
21 Or each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal.
24 BYZ and TR Take and eat, this is My body, which is broken for you
27 BYZ and TR this bread
27 BYZ includes of the Lord
27 Or will be responsible for the
29 BYZ and TR include unworthily.
29 BYZ and TR include of the Lord.