1 Corinthians 11:1-22 ▼

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

2 Now I commend you⁺ because you⁺ have remembered me in all things, and you⁺ hold fast the traditions just as I delivered them to you⁺.

3 But 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.

4 Every man praying or prophesying having anything on his head dishonors his head.

5 And every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered dishonors her head; for it is one and the same with having been shaven.

6 For 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.

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

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

9 For also man was not created because of the woman, but woman because of the man.

10 Because of this, the woman ought to have authority on the head, because of the angels.

11 However, neither is woman apart from man, nor man apart from woman in the Lord.

12 For just as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman. And all things are of God.

13 Judge in yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God uncovered?

14 Does not even nature itself teach you⁺ that indeed if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,

15 but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For the long hair instead of a covering is given to her.

16 Now if anyone thinks to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

17 Now in this instructing, I do not praise you, because not for the better, but for the worse, do you⁺ come together.

18 For first indeed, on your⁺ coming together in an assembly, I hear there to be divisions among you⁺, and in part I believe it.

19 For also it is necessary for there to be factions among you⁺, so that also the ones approved should become evident among you⁺.

20 Therefore, on your⁺ coming together in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord’s supper.

21 For in eating, each takes first his own supper. And indeed this one is hungry, but that one is drunk.

22 What! 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!