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¹ Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.² Now I praise you that you remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.³ 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.⁴ Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.⁵ But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.⁶ For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.⁷ For a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, since he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.⁸ For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man:⁹ for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man:¹⁰ for this cause ought the woman to have [a sign of] authority on her head, because of the angels.¹¹ Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.¹² For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God.¹³ Judge in yourselves: is it seemly that a woman prays to God unveiled?¹⁴ Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a shame 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 any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

¹⁷ But in giving you this charge, I do not praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.¹⁸ For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it.¹⁹ For there must also be factions among you, that those that are approved may also be made manifest among you.²⁰ When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper:²¹ for in your eating each one takes before [another] his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunk.²² What, do you not have houses to eat and to drink in? or do you despise the church of God, and put them to shame that do not have? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this I do not praise you.

²³ For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the 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: this do in remembrance of me.²⁵ In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, 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 until he comes.²⁷ Therefore whoever shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.²⁸ But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.²⁹ For he that eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he does not discern the body.³⁰ For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.³¹ But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged.³² But when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that we may not be condemned with the world.³³ Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait one for another.³⁴ If any man is hungry, let him eat at home; that your coming together not be to judgment. And the rest I will set in order whenever I come.