1 A1 Cor 4:16; Phil 3:17Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

2 Now A1 Cor 11:17, 22I praise you because you B1 Cor 4:17; 15:2; 1 Thess 1:6; 3:6remember me in everything and C2 Thess 2:15; 3:6hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you. 3 But I want you to understand that 1I.e. the MessiahChrist is the AEph 1:22; 4:15; 5:23; Col 1:18; 2:19head of every man, and BGen 3:16; Eph 5:23the man is the head of a woman, and God is the C1 Cor 3:23head of 1I.e. the MessiahChrist. 4 Every man who has something on his head while praying or AActs 13:1; 1 Thess 5:20prophesying disgraces his head. 5 But every ALuke 2:36; Acts 21:9; 1 Cor 14:34woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman 1Lit who is shavedwhose head is BDeut 21:12shaved. 6 For if a woman does not cover 1Lit herselfher head, let her also 2Lit shear herselfhave her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to 2Lit shear herselfhave her hair cut off or 1Lit herselfher head shaved, let her cover 1Lit herselfher head. 7 For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the AGen 1:26; 5:1; 9:6; James 3:9image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. 8 For AGen 2:21-23; 1 Tim 2:13man 1Lit is not fromdoes not originate from woman, but woman from man; 9 for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but AGen 2:18woman for the man’s sake. 10 Therefore the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. 11 However, in the Lord, neither is woman 1Lit withoutindependent of man, nor is man 1Lit withoutindependent of woman. 12 For as the woman 1Lit isoriginates from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and A2 Cor 5:18all things 2Lit areoriginate BRom 11:36from God. 13 ALuke 12:57Judge 1Lit infor yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? 14 Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him, 15 but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her for a covering. 16 But if one is inclined to be contentious, A1 Cor 4:5; 9:1-3, 6we have no 1Lit suchother practice, nor have B1 Cor 7:17the churches of God.

17 But in giving this instruction, A1 Cor 11:2, 22I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse. 18 For, in the first place, when you come together 1Lit in churchas a church, I hear that 2Lit schismsA1 Cor 1:10; 3:3divisions exist among you; and in part I believe it. 19 For there AMatt 18:7; Luke 17:1; 1 Tim 4:1; 2 Pet 2:1must also be factions among you, BDeut 13:3; 1 John 2:19so that those who are approved may become 1Or manifestevident among you. 20 Therefore when you meet together, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper, 21 for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and AJude 12another is drunk. 22 What! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the A1 Cor 10:32church of God and BJames 2:6shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall C1 Cor 11:2, 17I praise you? In this I will not praise you.

23 For A1 Cor 15:3; Gal 1:12; Col 3:24I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that B1 Cor 11:23-25: Matt 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-24; Luke 22:17-20; 1 Cor 10:16the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 25 In the same way He took A1 Cor 10:16the cup also after supper, saying, “This cup is the BEx 24:6-8; Luke 22:20; 2 Cor 3:6new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death AJohn 21:22; 1 Cor 4:5until He comes.

27 Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be AHeb 10:29guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. 28 But a man must AMatt 26:22; 2 Cor 13:5; Gal 6:4examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly. 30 For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number 1I.e. are deadAActs 7:60sleep. 31 But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are A2 Sam 7:14; Ps 94:12; Heb 12:7-10; Rev 3:19disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with B1 Cor 1:20the world.

33 So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. 34 If anyone is A1 Cor 11:21hungry, let him eat B1 Cor 11:22at home, so that you will not come together for judgment. The remaining matters I will C1 Cor 4:17; 7:17; 16:1arrange D1 Cor 4:19when I come.