1 Corinthians 11:8-23

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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

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

¹⁰ Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her head, because of the angels.

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

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

¹³ You yourselves judge: doth it become a woman, to pray unto God uncovered?

¹⁴ Doth not even nature itself teach you, that a man indeed, if he nourish his hair, it is a shame unto him?

¹⁵ But if a woman nourish her hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering.

¹⁶ But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the church of God.

¹⁷ Now this I ordain: not praising you, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse.

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

¹⁹ For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are approved, may be made manifest among you.

²⁰ When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now to eat the Lord's supper.

²¹ For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk.

²² What, have you not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God; and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? Do 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.