The Koine Bible

Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions just as I delivered them to you.

But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, the head of a woman is the man, and the head of the Christ is God.

Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.

But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is one and the same as if she were shaved.

For if a woman does not cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or shaved, let her be covered.

For a man should not cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

For man is not from woman, but woman is from man.

For man was not created because of woman, but woman because of man.

Therefore the woman ought to have authority on her head because of the angels.

However, neither woman without man nor man without woman in the Lord.

For just as the woman is from the man, so also the man is through the woman; but all things are from God.

Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,

But if a woman has long hair, it is her glory, because the hair has been given to her instead of a veil.

But if anyone seems to be contentious, we do not have such a custom, nor do the churches of God.

Now in giving this instruction, I do not praise you, because you do not come together for the better but for the worse.

For first, when you come together in the church, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I believe it in part.

For there must also be factions among you, so that the tested ones may become evident among you.

Therefore, when you come together, it is not possible to eat the Lord’s supper.

For each one takes their own meal ahead when eating, and some are hungry, while others get drunk.

Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? In this matter I do not praise you.

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was handed over took bread

And having given thanks, he broke it and said, This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.

In the same way also 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.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

But let a person examine himself, and in this way let him eat from the bread and drink from the cup.

For the one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment for himself.

Because of this, many among you are weak and sick, and a considerable number are sleeping.

But if we judge ourselves, we would not be judged.

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you do not come together for judgment. As for the rest, when I come, I will arrange it.