1 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things and hold fast the traditions just as I delivered them to you.
3 But I want you to 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 who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.
5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head; for that is one and the same as if her head were shaved.
6 For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn; but if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.
7 For a man indeed ought not to veil his head, being the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man;
9 nor was man created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.
10 For this reason the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.
11 Nevertheless, neither is man without woman, nor woman without man, in the Lord.
12 For as woman is from man, so man also is through woman; but all things are from God.
13 Judge among yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God unveiled?
14 Or 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 anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.
17 Now in giving this charge I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.
18 For first of all, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
19 For there must also be factions among you, that those who are approved may become manifest among you.
20 When, then, you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper;
21 for in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of the others, and one is hungry and another is drunk.
22 What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and put to shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I do not praise you.
23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was betrayed, took bread,
24 and having given thanks, he broke it and said, "Take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of me."
25 In the same way also he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new 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 this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
29 For he who eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.
30 Because of this many among you are weak and sickly, and a good many sleep.
31 For if we discerned ourselves, we would not be judged.
32 But being judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
33 So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
34 And if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together for condemnation. And the rest I will set in order whenever I come.