1 Corinthians 11

1Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.Cross-references: Rom 15:2 · 1Cor 4:16 · 1Cor 10:33 · Eph 5:1 · Phil 2:4 · Phil 3:17 · +3 more

2Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.Cross-references: Prov 31:28 · Luke 1:6 · 1Cor 4:17 · 1Cor 7:17 · 1Cor 11:17 · 1Cor 11:22 · +5 more

3But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.Cross-references: Gen 3:16 · Isa 49:3 · Isa 52:13 · Isa 55:4 · Isa 61:1 · Matt 28:18 · +17 more

4Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.Cross-references: 2Sam 15:30 · 2Sam 19:4 · 1Cor 11:14 · 1Cor 12:10 · 1Cor 12:28 · 1Cor 14:1

5But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.Cross-references: Deut 21:12 · Luke 2:36 · Acts 2:17 · Acts 21:9 · 1Cor 14:34

6For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaved, let her be covered.Cross-references: Num 5:18 · Deut 22:5

7For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.Cross-references: Gen 1:26 · Gen 3:16 · Gen 5:1 · Gen 9:6 · Ps 8:6 · 1Cor 11:3 · +1 more

8For man is not from woman, but woman from man;Cross-references: Gen 2:21 · 1Tim 2:13

9for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.Cross-references: Gen 2:18 · Gen 2:20 · Gen 2:23

10For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels.Cross-references: Gen 20:16 · Gen 24:64 · Eccl 5:6 · Matt 18:10 · Heb 1:14

11Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.Cross-references: 1Cor 7:10 · 1Cor 12:12 · Gal 3:28

12For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.Cross-references: Prov 16:4 · Rom 11:36 · 1Cor 8:6 · Heb 1:2

13Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?Cross-references: Luke 12:57 · John 7:24 · 1Cor 10:15

14Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?Cross-references: 2Sam 14:26 · 1Cor 14:35

15But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.

16But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.Cross-references: Acts 21:21 · Acts 21:24 · 1Cor 7:17 · 1Cor 14:33 · 1Cor 16:1 · 1Thess 2:14 · +1 more

17But in giving you this command I don’t praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.Cross-references: Lev 19:17 · Prov 27:5 · Isa 1:13 · Isa 58:1 · Jer 7:9 · Rom 13:3 · +8 more

18For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.Cross-references: 1Cor 1:10 · 1Cor 3:3 · 1Cor 5:1 · 1Cor 6:1

19For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.Cross-references: Deut 13:3 · Matt 18:7 · Luke 2:35 · Luke 17:1 · Acts 5:17 · Acts 15:5 · +11 more

20When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.

21For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.Cross-references: 1Cor 10:16 · 1Cor 11:23 · 2Pet 2:13 · Jude 1:12

22What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.Cross-references: Prov 17:5 · Acts 20:28 · 1Cor 10:32 · 1Cor 11:2 · 1Cor 11:17 · 1Cor 15:9 · +3 more

23For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.Cross-references: Deut 4:5 · Matt 26:2 · Matt 26:17 · Matt 26:26 · Matt 26:34 · Matt 28:20 · +7 more

24When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”Cross-references: Ex 12:14 · Josh 4:7 · Ps 22:26 · Ps 22:29 · Ps 111:4 · Prov 9:5 · +11 more

25In the same way he also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”Cross-references: Luke 22:20 · 1Cor 10:16 · 1Cor 11:27 · 2Cor 3:6 · 2Cor 3:14 · Heb 9:15 · +1 more

26For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.Cross-references: John 14:3 · John 21:22 · Acts 1:11 · 1Cor 4:5 · 1Cor 15:23 · 1Thess 4:16 · +9 more

27Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.Cross-references: Lev 10:1 · Num 9:10 · Num 9:13 · 2Chr 30:18 · Matt 22:11 · John 6:51 · +4 more

28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.Cross-references: Num 9:10 · Ps 26:2 · Lam 3:40 · Hag 1:5 · Hag 1:7 · Zech 7:5 · +5 more

29For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body.Cross-references: Eccl 8:5 · Rom 13:2 · 1Cor 11:24 · 1Cor 11:27 · 1Cor 11:30 · 1Cor 11:32 · +3 more

30For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.Cross-references: Ex 15:26 · Num 20:12 · Num 20:24 · Num 21:6 · 2Sam 12:14 · 1Ki 13:21 · +10 more

31For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.Cross-references: Ps 32:3 · Jer 31:18 · Luke 15:18 · 1Cor 11:28 · 1John 1:9 · Rev 2:5 · +1 more

32But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.Cross-references: Deut 8:5 · Job 5:17 · Job 33:18 · Job 34:31 · Ps 94:12 · Ps 118:18 · +9 more

33Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

34But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.Cross-references: 1Cor 4:19 · 1Cor 7:17 · 1Cor 11:21 · 1Cor 16:2 · 1Cor 16:5 · Titus 1:5