Chapter 11

Be imitators of me as I am of Christ. Rules for Men and Women

Now I praise you, brethren, because in all things you are mindful of me and hold fast my precepts as I gave them to you.

But I would have you 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.

Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered, disgraces his head.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for it is the same as if she were shaven.

For if a woman is not covered, let her be shaven. But if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaven, let her cover her head.

A man indeed ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God. But woman is the glory of man.

For man is not from woman, but woman from man.

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

This is why the woman ought to have a sign of authority over her head, because of the angels.

Yet neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man in the Lord.

For as the woman is from the man, so also is the man through the woman, but all things are from God.

Judge for yourselves: does it become a woman to pray to God uncovered?

Does not nature itself teach you that for a man to wear his hair long is degrading;

but for a woman to wear her hair long is a glory to her? Because her hair has been given her as a covering.

But if anyone is disposed to be contentious---we have no such custom, neither have the churches of God. An Abuse

But in giving this charge, I do not commend you in that you meet not for the better but for the worse.

For first of all I hear that when you meet in church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

For there must be factions, so that those who are approved may be made manifest among you.

So then when you meet together, it is no longer possible to eat the Lord's Supper.

For at the meal, each one takes first his own supper, and one is hungry, and another drinks overmuch.

Have you not houses for your eating and drinking? Or do you despise the church of God and put to shame the needy? What am I to say to you? Am I to commend you? In this I do not commend you. Institution of the Eucharist

For I myself have received from the Lord (what I also delivered to you), that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was betrayed, took bread,

and giving thanks broke, and said, "This is my body which shall be given up for you; do this in remembrance of me."

In like manner also the cup, after he had supped, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

For as often as you shall eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord, until he comes."

Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily, will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the cup;

for he who eats and drinks unworthily, without distinguishing the body, eats and drinks judgment to himself.

This is why many among you are infirm and weak, and many sleep.

But if we judged ourselves, we should not thus be judged.

But when we are judged, we are being chastised by the Lord that we may not be condemned with this world.

Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together unto judgment. The rest I shall set in order when I come.