| Chapter 11 |
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Be my imitators, even as *I* also am of Christ. |
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Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions. |
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But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman`s head is the man, and the Christ`s head God. |
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Every man praying or prophesying, having anything on his head, puts his head to shame. |
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But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved woman. |
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For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it be shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered. |
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For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God`s image and glory; but woman is man`s glory. |
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For man is not of woman, but woman of man. |
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For also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man. |
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Therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head, on account of the angels. |
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However, neither is woman without man, nor man without woman, in the Lord. |
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For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman, but all things of God. |
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Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered? |
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Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him? |
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But woman, if she have long hair, it is glory to her; for the long hair is given to her in lieu of a veil. |
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But if any one think to be contentious, *we* have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God. |
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But in prescribing to you on this which I now enter on, I do not praise, namely, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse. |
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For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit to it. |
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For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you. |
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When ye come therefore together into one place, it is not to eat the Lord`s supper. |
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For each one in eating takes his *own* supper before others, and one is hungry and another drinks to excess. |
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Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this point I do not praise. |
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For *I* received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread, |
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and having given thanks broke it, and said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me. |
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In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me. |
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For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come. |
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So that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord. |
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But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. |
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For the eater and drinker eats and drinks judgment to himself, not distinguishing the body. |
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On this account many among you are weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep. |
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But if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged. |
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But being judged, we are disciplined of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. |
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So that, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another. |
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If any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for judgment. But the other things, whenever I come, I will set in order. |