Paul instructs the church on head coverings in worship and rebukes the way the Lord's Supper has become a time of selfishness and division. He retells how Jesus gave the bread and the cup and says to examine yourself.
1 Be ye followers of me , even as I also am of Christ .
2 Now I praise you , brethren , that ye remember me in all things , and keep the ordinances , 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 , dishonoureth his head .
5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head : for that is even all one as if she were shaven .
6 For if the woman be not covered , let her also be shorn : but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven , let her be covered .
7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head , forasmuch as 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 Neither was the man created for the woman ; but the woman for the man .
10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels .
11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman , neither the woman without the man , in the Lord .
12 For as the woman is of the man , even so is the man also by the woman ; but all things of God .
13 Judge in yourselves : is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered ?
14 Doth not even nature itself teach you , that , if a man have long hair , it is a shame unto him ?
15 But if a woman have long hair , it is a glory to her : for her hair is given her for a covering .
16 But if any man seem to be contentious , we have no such custom , neither the churches of God .
17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not , that ye come together not for the better , but for the worse .
18 For first of all , when ye come together in the church , I hear that there be divisions among you ; and I partly believe it .
19 For there must be also heresies among you , that they which are approved may be made manifest among you .
20 When ye come together therefore into one place , this is not to eat the Lord's supper .
21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper : and one is hungry , and another is drunken .
22 What ? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in ? or despise ye the church of God , and shame them that have not ? What shall I say to you ? shall I praise you in this ? I praise you not .
23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you , That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread :
24 And when he had given thanks , he brake it, and said , Take , eat : this is my body , which is broken for you : this do in remembrance of me .
25 After the same manner also he took the cup , when he had supped , saying , This cup is the new testament in my blood : this do ye , as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me .
26 For as often as ye eat this bread , and drink this cup , ye do shew the Lord's death till he come .
27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread , and drink this cup of the Lord , unworthily , shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord .
28 But let a man examine himself , and so let him eat of that bread , and drink of that cup .
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily , eateth and drinketh damnation to himself , not discerning the Lord's body .
30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you , and many sleep .
31 For if we would judge ourselves , we should not be judged .
32 But when we are judged , we are chastened of the Lord , that we should not be condemned with the world .
33 Wherefore , my brethren , when ye come together to eat , tarry one for another .
34 And if any man hunger , let him eat at home ; that ye come not together unto condemnation . And the rest will I set in order when I come .