1 Corinthians 11

New Matthew Bible

11 ¹ Follow me, as I do Christ.

He rebukes them for abuse and for disorder concerning the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, and brings them again to the first institution.

² I commend you, brethren, that you remember me in all things, and keep the observances even as I delivered them to you.

³ I would that you understood that Christ is the head of every man. And the man is the woman’s head. And God is Christ’s head.  ⁴ Every man praying or prophesying, having anything on his head, dishonours his head. ⁵ Every woman who prays or prophesies bare-headed dishonours her head, for it is one and the very same thing as if she were shaven. ⁶ If the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. If it is dishonourable for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her cover her head. 

⁷ A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God. 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’s sake, but the woman for the man’s sake. ¹⁰ For this reason, the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head – for the angels’ sakes. ¹¹ Nevertheless, neither is the man independent of the woman, nor the woman independent of the man in the Lord. ¹² For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man by the woman; but all is of God.

¹³ Judge in yourselves if it is befitting that a woman pray to God bare-headed. ¹⁴ Or does not nature teach you that it is discreditable for a man if he has long hair, ¹⁵ and brings praise to a woman if she has long hair? For her hair is given her to cover her with. ¹⁶ If there is anyone among you who is inclined to argue, let him know that we have no such custom, nor do the congregations of God.

¹⁷ Now this I warn you of and do not commend: that you come together not for the better, but for the worse. ¹⁸ First of all, when you come together in the congregation, I hear that there is dissension among you. And I believe it as to some, ¹⁹ for there must be sects among you, so that those who are sound among you may be known.

²⁰ When you come together, a person cannot eat the Lord’s Supper, ²¹ because everyone begins ahead to eat his own supper. And one is hungry, and another is drunk. ²² Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you think nothing of the congregation of God, and shame those who have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I do not praise you.

²³ That which I delivered to you, I received from the Lord. For the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, ²⁴ and thanked, and broke, and said, Take ye, and eat; this is my body which is broken for you. This do in the remembrance of me. ²⁵ In the same manner he took the cup when supper was done, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood; this do as oft as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

²⁶ For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you show the Lord’s death till he comes. ²⁷ Therefore whosoever eats of this bread or drinks of this cup unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. ²⁸ Let a person therefore examine himself, and thus let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. ²⁹ For he who eats or drinks unworthily, eats and drinks his own damnation, because he does not discern the Lord’s body. ³⁰ For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. ³¹ If we truly judged ourselves, we would not be judged. ³² But when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened, so that we may not be condemned with the world.

³³ Therefore my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. ³⁴ If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you do not come together unto condemnation.

Other things I will set in order when I come.