The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

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- Chapter 11 -

Follow my example, just like I follow the example of Messiah.

I praise you because you remember me in all you do, and you hold tight to all the important teachings that I have passed down to you and you have kept them just as I taught them to you.

I want you to understand that Messiah has authority over every man, and that a man has authority over a woman, and that God has authority over Messiah.

So if any man covers his head when he prays or when he proclaims a message from God, he brings disgrace on himself.

But if a woman prays or proclaims a message God gave her with her head uncovered, she brings disgrace on herself. For it is exactly the same as if she had shaved her head.

If a woman refuses to cover her head, then she should cut her hair short, like a man’s. But you know that it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut short or to have her head shaved. So, instead, she should cover her head.

A man should not cover his head because God made him like himself, and the man reflects some of what God himself is like. But women reflect some of what men are like.

For God did not make the man Adam from the woman Eve; instead, he made the woman Eve from the man Adam.

It was not the man whom God created to help the woman, but the woman to help the man.

This is why women should cover their heads, as a sign of the authority, and because of the angels.

So as we live joined to the Lord, women need men to help them, and men need women to help them.

This is because the woman was made from the man, and the man is born from the woman. They are dependent on one another. But all things come from God.

Judge this for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God without a cover on her head?

Nature itself teaches us that it is a disgrace for a man to have long hair,

but nature also teaches that long hair for a woman is a display of her beauty. Her hair is given to her by God to cover her beauty.

But if anyone in the church wishes to argue about this matter, we do not have any other custom than this, nor do any of the churches do anything different.

Sharing in the Lord’s Supper

(Matthew 26:20–30; Mark 14:17–26; Luke 22:14–23)

In these instructions, I cannot praise you for what you are doing about the Lord’s supper. When you come together to eat, instead of encouraging and helping one another, you make the fellowship in the church much worse.

The first matter of concern is that when you come together, you come with different groups and factions. This is what people have told me, and I believe that some of what they say is true.

It appears that you need to have different groups among yourselves so that you can test and approve the ones that have places of honor, and others that do not.

When you come together you are not eating the Lord’s Supper.

When you eat, one person brings an entire meal and eats it as soon as he arrives; he does not wait for anyone else. Another person goes hungry while other people drink so much wine that they get drunk.

You act as though you did not have houses to eat and drink in! You treat the church with dishonor, and you despise the purpose for which you gather. You humiliate those who are poor. I can say nothing good about this. This is a disgrace.

For I have passed on to you what I received from the Lord, that on the night when the Lord Jesus was handed over to his enemies, he took unleavened bread,

and after he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you, do this and remember me.”

After the same manner, he took the cup, after they had eaten, and said, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it, to remember me.”

For every time you eat this unleavened bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes again.

All who come to this celebration of the Lord’s Supper should come to give honor to God in the way it is shared. Those who eat the unleavened bread and drink the cup must do so in a manner that honors the Lord. Anyone who dishonors the unleavened bread and the cup will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

Therefore we should all examine ourselves before we take the communion. We should only eat the unleavened bread and drink the cup after we have examined ourselves.

Anyone who eats and drinks this Supper and does not consider what is the Lord’s body, eats and drinks the judgment of God on himself.

Many among you are physically ill, and several have even died because of the way you have treated the Lord’s body.

If we examine ourselves before we take the communion, God will not judge us.

But when the Lord judges and punishes us, he disciplines us to correct us, so that he will not condemn us along with the world that has rebelled against God.

My fellow believers, when you come together for the Lord’s Supper, wait for one another.

If one of you is hungry, eat at home, so that when you come together as the church, it will not be an occasion for God to discipline you. And when I come to you, I will give you instructions concerning the other matters you wrote me about.

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

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

But I would have you know that the head

(a)

of every man is Christ, and the head

(b)

of the woman is man, and the head

(c)

of Christ is God.

Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaved, let her be covered.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

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

for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.

For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels.

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

For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?

Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.

Sharing in the Lord’s Supper

(Matthew 26:20–30; Mark 14:17–26; Luke 22:14–23)

But in giving you this command I don’t praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.

For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.

When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”

In the same way he also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body.

For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.

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

Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

Footnotes

(a)11:3 or, origin

(b)11:3 or, origin