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Instructions for Public Worship
And you should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
And you should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
Roles in Worship
Be my imitators, even as *I* also [am] of Christ.
Be my imitators, even as *I* also [am] of Christ.
I am so glad that you always keep me in your thoughts, and that you are following the teachings I passed on to you.
Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.
But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head [is] the man, and the Christ's head God.
Every man praying or prophesying, having [anything] on his head, puts his head to shame.
But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved [woman].
For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if [it be] shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered.
A man should not wear anything on his head when worshiping, for man is made in God’s image and reflects God’s glory. And woman reflects man’s glory.
For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory.
For the first man didn’t come from woman, but the first woman came from man.
For man is not of woman, but woman of man.
And man was not made for woman, but woman was made for man.
For also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.
Therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head, on account of the angels.
But among the Lord’s people, women are not independent of men, and men are not independent of women.
However, neither [is] woman without man, nor man without woman, in [the] Lord.
For although the first woman came from man, every other man was born from a woman, and everything comes from God.
For as the woman [is] of the man, so also [is] the man by the woman, but all things of God.
Judge for yourselves. Is it right for a woman to pray to God in public without covering her head?
Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered?
Isn’t it obvious that it’s disgraceful for a man to have long hair?
Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?
And isn’t long hair a woman’s pride and joy? For it has been given to her as a covering.
But woman, if she have long hair, [it is] glory to her; for the long hair is given [to her] in lieu of a veil.
But if anyone wants to argue about this, I simply say that we have no other custom than this, and neither do God’s other churches.
But if any one think to be contentious, *we* have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God.
Order at the Lord’s Supper
But in the following instructions, I cannot praise you. For it sounds as if more harm than good is done when you meet together.
Observing the Lord's Supper
But [in] prescribing [to you on] this [which I now enter on], I do not praise, [namely,] that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.
But [in] prescribing [to you on] this [which I now enter on], I do not praise, [namely,] that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.
First, I hear that there are divisions among you when you meet as a church, and to some extent I believe it.
For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit [to it].
But, of course, there must be divisions among you so that you who have God’s approval will be recognized!
For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you.
When you meet together, you are not really interested in the Lord’s Supper.
When ye come therefore together into one place, it is not to eat [the] Lord's supper.
For some of you hurry to eat your own meal without sharing with others. As a result, some go hungry while others get drunk.
For each one in eating takes his *own* supper before [others], and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.
What? Don’t you have your own homes for eating and drinking? Or do you really want to disgrace God’s church and shame the poor? What am I supposed to say? Do you want me to praise you? Well, I certainly will not praise you for this!
Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this [point] I do not praise.
For I pass on to you what I received from the Lord himself. On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread
For *I* received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,
and having given thanks broke [it], and said, This is my body, which [is] for you: this do in remembrance of me.
In the same way, he took the cup of wine after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant between God and his people — an agreement confirmed with my blood. Do this in remembrance of me as often as you drink it.”
In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye shall drink [it], in remembrance of me.
For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are announcing the Lord’s death until he comes again.
For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come.
So that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord.
That is why you should examine yourself before eating the bread and drinking the cup.
But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
For [the] eater and drinker eats and drinks judgment to himself, not distinguishing the body.
That is why many of you are weak and sick and some have even died.
On this account many among you [are] weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep.
But if we would examine ourselves, we would not be judged by God in this way.
But if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged.
Yet when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned along with the world.
But being judged, we are disciplined of [the] Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
So that, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another.
If you are really hungry, eat at home so you won’t bring judgment upon yourselves when you meet together. I’ll give you instructions about the other matters after I arrive.
If any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for judgment. But the other things, whenever I come, I will set in order.