1 Corinthians Chapter 11

Women’s Decorum in Worship

² I commend you for remembering me and maintaining the customs I passed on to you. ³ I want you to know that God is the head of Christ, Christ is the head of every husband, and a husband is head of a wife. ⁴ A man that prays or prophesies with his head covered disgraces his head. ⁵ A woman that prays or prophesies bareheaded disgraces her head. It’s the same as shaving it. ⁶ If a woman is bareheaded, she may as well be bald. If it’s shameful for a woman to cut her hair off, she should cover her head. ⁷ A man shouldn’t cover his head because he’s the image and delight of God. A wife is her husband’s delight. ⁸ Man didn’t come from woman, but woman from man. ⁹ Man wasn’t created for woman, but woman for man. ¹⁰ So she should wear a sign of authority on her head because of the angels. ¹¹ But, in the Lord a husband and wife exist as a combination. ¹² As woman came from man, man comes by woman, and everything comes from God. ¹³ Judge for yourselves: is it appropriate for a woman to pray to God bareheaded? ¹⁴ Doesn’t what’s natural teach you that long hair dishonors a man, ¹⁵ but it honors a woman? Long hair serves as a covering for her. ¹⁶ If someone wants to argue about it, we don’t have such a custom; neither do the churches of God.               

1 Cor 11:2-16

The Lord’s Supper

¹⁷ In this next instruction, I’m not commending you, because your getting together doesn’t make things better but worse. ¹⁸ To begin with, when you get together for church, I hear there are divisions among you, and I’m inclined to believe it. ¹⁹ Divisions even need to exist to show who are approved. ²⁰ When you get together, you can’t be eating the Lord’s Supper. ²¹ Each one is bringing out his own supper, and one’s hungry while another overeats. ²² Don’t you have houses to eat in? Do you disrespect God’s church and embarrass people that don’t have anything to eat? What can I say to you? Can I compliment you? Not for that, I can’t.                                   

1 Cor 11:17-22

            ²³ I received from the Lord what I passed on to you. The night he was betrayed, he took a loaf, ²⁴ gave thanks, broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in memory of me.” ²⁵ After the meal he took the cup, “This cup is the New Covenant in my blood. As often as you drink it, do it in memory of me.” ²⁶ As often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you’re expressing the Lord’s death till he comes.                                                                       

²⁷ So whoever eats this bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in a way that’s not appropriate, is guilty of his body and blood. ²⁸ That’s why you need to examine yourself and eat the bread and drink the cup that way. ²⁹ If you eat and drink without recognizing the [Lord’s]^ms body, you eat and drink condemnation to yourself. ³⁰ That’s why many of you are weak and sickly, and a considerable number are dying. ³¹ If we examine ourselves, we won’t be condemned. ³² When we judge ourselves, the Lord disciplines us so we won’t be condemned along with the world. ³³ So when you get together to eat, be considerate. ³⁴ If you’re hungry, eat at home to avoid being condemned. I’ll straighten out the rest when I get there.

1 Cor 11:23-34