| 1 ¶ Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
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| 2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances,1 as I delivered them to you.
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| 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.
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| 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
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| 9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
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| 10 For this cause ought the woman to have power2 on her head because of the angels.
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| 11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
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| 12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
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| 13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
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| 14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
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| 15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.3
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| 16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
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| 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.
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| 18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions4 among you; and I partly believe it.
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| 19 For there must be also heresies5 among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
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| 20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this6 is not to eat the Lord's supper.
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| 21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
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| 22 What? have ye not7 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.
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| 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:
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| 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 in8 remembrance of me.
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| 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.
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| 26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do9 shew the Lord's death till he come.
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| 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.
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| 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
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| 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation10 to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
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| 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
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| 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
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| 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
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| 33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
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| 34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation.11 And the rest will I set in order when I come.
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