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title: 1 Corinthians 11
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**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.