KJ3 Literal Translation
1 Corinthians 11
1 He reproves them because in holy assemblies 4 their men prayed with their heads covered, and 6 women with their heads uncovered, 21 and for profaning with their own feasts the Lord’s supper.
1Be imitators of me, as I am also of Christ.
2But I praise you, brothers, that in all things you have remembered me, and even as I gave them over to you, you hold fast the traditions.
3But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.
4Every man praying or prophesying, having any covering on his head shames his head.
5And every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is one and the same as being shaved.
6For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn, or to be shaved, let her be covered.
7For truly a man ought not to have the head covered, being the image and glory of God. But woman is the glory of man;
8for man is not of the woman, but woman of man;
9for also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man;
10because of this, the woman ought to have authority on the head, because of the angels.
11But neither is the man apart from woman, nor woman apart from man, in the Lord.
12For as the woman is out of the man, so also the man through the woman; but all things from God.
13You judge among yourselves: is it fitting for a woman to pray to God uncovered?
14Or does not nature herself teach you that if a man indeed wears long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
15But if a woman wears her hair long, it is a glory to her; because the long hair has been given to her instead of a covering.
16But if anyone thinks to be contentious, we do not have such a custom, nor the assemblies of God.
17But enjoining this, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better, but for the worse.
18Indeed, first, I hear divisions to be among you when you come together in the assembly. And I believe it in some part.
19For also factions need to be among you, so that the approved ones may become revealed among you.
20Therefore you coming together into one place, it is not to eat the Lord’s supper.
21For each one takes his own supper first in order to eat; and one is hungry, and another drunken.
22For do you not have houses in which to eat and to drink? Or do you despise the assembly of God, and shame the ones who have not? What should I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? I do not praise.
23For I received from the Lord what I also gave over to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was given over took bread;
24and having given thanks, He broke and said, Take, eat; this is My body, the one being broken on behalf of you; this do in remembrance of Me.
25In the same way the cup also, after the order to eat supper, He said, This cup is the New Covenant in My blood; as often as you drink, do this in remembrance of Me.
26For as often as you may eat this bread, and drink this cup, you solemnly proclaim the death of the Lord, until He shall come.
27So then whoever should eat this bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, that one will be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord.
28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat from the bread, and let him drink from the cup;
29for the one eating and drinking unworthily eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.
30Because of this many among you are weak and infirm, and a considerable number sleep.
31For if we judged ourselves, we would not be judged.
32But being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we not be condemned with the world.
33So that, my brothers, coming together to eat, wait for one another.
34But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, that you may not come together for judgment. And the remaining things I will set in order whenever I come.
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