1 11:2I COMMEND you, brothers, that you have remembered all my [instructions], and that you retain the traditions as I delivered them to you. 11:3But I wish you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman, the man, and the head of Christ, God. 11:4Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered disgraces his head. 11:5But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered disgraces her head; for it is one and the same as if she was shaved. 11:6For if a woman is not veiled then let her hair be cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off, or to be shaved, let her wear a veil.
2 11:7For a man ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory of God; but the woman is a glory of man. 11:8For man is not of woman, but woman of man; 11:9for man also was not created because of the woman, but woman because of the man. 11:10For this reason ought the woman to have a power [veil] on her head because of the angels. 11:11But neither is woman without man, nor man without woman in the Lord; 11:12for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, but all things are from God. 11:13Judge of yourselves; is it becoming that a woman should pray to God unveiled? 11:14Does not nature herself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace to him? 11:15but if a woman wears long hair it is her glory; for the hair is given her for a covering. 11:16But if any one is disposed to be contentious, we have no such custom neither have the churches of God.
3 11:17But I tell you this, not to praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse. 11:18For first, when you come together in an assembly, I hear that there are divisions among you, and some part of it I believe. 11:19For it is necessary that there should be heresies among you, that the approved may be manifest among you. 11:20When you come together therefore, it is not to eat the Lord's supper, 11:21for each one in eating takes his supper before the rest, and one is hungry and another drunk. 11:22Have you not [food] to eat and drink at your houses? or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who have not [houses]? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you? In this I commend you not.
4 11:23For I received of the Lord, what I also delivered to you; that on the night in which he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread 11:24and giving thanks broke, and said, This is my body, which is for you; this do in remembrance of me. 11:25In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant [sealed] with my blood; this do, as often as you drink, in remembrance of me. 11:26For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you declare the Lord's death till he comes. 11:27So that whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord unworthily, is guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 11:28But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup; 11:29for he eats and drinks judgment to himself, who eats and drinks not discerning the body.
5 11:30For this reason many are weak and sick among you and some sleep. 11:31For if we judged ourselves we should not be judged; 11:32but being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. 11:33Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait one for another. 11:34If any one is hungry let him eat at home, that you come not together for judgment. The other things I will arrange when I come.
CHAPTER VI.
SPIRITUAL GIFTS.
1 12:1AND I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of the spiritual gifts. 12:2You know that when you were gentiles, you followed dumb idols as you were led. 12:3I assure you, therefore, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus an accursed thing, and no one can call Jesus Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.
2 12:4And there are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit; 12:5and there are diversities of services and the same Lord; 12:6and there are diversities of operations and the same God, who performs all things in all. 12:7But a manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for a useful purpose. 12:8For to one is given by the Spirit a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge by the same Spirit, 12:9and to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of performing cures by the same Spirit, 12:10and to another the performance of mighty works, and to another prophecy, and to another discrimination of spirits, and to another different tongues, and to another an interpretation of tongues; 12:11but all these [works] performs one and the same Spirit, distributing to each in particular as it wills.
3 12:12For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body being many are one body, so also is Christ; 12:13for we have all been baptized with one Spirit in one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and have all been made to drink one Spirit. 12:14For the body also is not one member but many. 12:15If the foot says, Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body? 12:16and if the ear says, Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body? 12:17If the whole body was an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole was a hearing, where would be the smelling? 12:18But now God has placed the members each one of them in the body, as he pleased. 12:19But if all were one member, where would be the body? 12:20But now there are many members, but one body. 12:21The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you, or again, the head to the feet, I have no need of you; 12:22but much more those members of the body which seem to be weak are necessary, 12:23and those which we esteem to be less honorable members of the body, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our uncomely members have more abundant comeliness, 12:24for our comely ones have no need. But God has commingled the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which was lacking, 12:25that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. 12:26And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; and if one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with it.