111 Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ .
2 Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions , just as I delivered them to you. 3 But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man , and the man is the head of a woman , and God is the head of Christ . 4 Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head . 5 But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head , for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved . 6 For if a woman does not cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off ; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved , let her cover her head. 7 For a man ought not to have his head covered , since he is the image and glory of God ; but the woman is the glory of man . 8 For man does not originate from woman , but woman from man ; 9 for indeed man was not created for the woman's sake , but woman for the man's sake . 10 Therefore e the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head , because of the angels . 11 However , in the Lord , neither is woman independent of man , nor is man independent of woman . 12 For as the woman originates from the man , so also the man has his birth through the woman ; and all things originate from God . 13 Judge for yourselves e : is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered ? 14 Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair , it is a dishonor to him, 15 but if a woman has long hair , it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her for a covering . 16 But if one is inclined to be contentious , we have no other practice , nor have the churches of God .
17 But in giving this instruction , I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse . 18 For, in the first place, when you come together as a church , I hear that divisions exist among you; and in part I believe it. 19 For there must also be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you. 20 Therefore when you meet together e e , it is not to eat the Lord's Supper , 21 for in your eating each one takes his own supper first ; and one is hungry and another e is drunk . 22 What ! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink ? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing ? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise you.
23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread ; 24 and when He had given thanks , He broke it and said , "This is My body , which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me." 25 In the same way He took the cup also after supper , saying , "This cup is the new covenant in My blood ; do this , as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me." 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup , you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes .
27 Therefore whoever e eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner , shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord . 28 But a man must examine himself , and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup . 29 For he who eats and drinks , eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly. 30 For this reason many among you are weak and sick , and a number sleep . 31 But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged . 32 But when we are judged , we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world . 33 So then , my brethren , when you come together to eat , wait for one another . 34 If anyone is hungry , let him eat at home , so that you will not come together for judgment . The remaining matters I will arrange when I come .
31 And I, brethren , could not speak to you as to spiritual men , but as to men of flesh , as to infants in Christ . 2 I gave you milk to drink , not solid food ; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed , even now you are not yet able , 3 for you are still fleshly . For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly , and are you not walking like mere men ? 4 For when one says , "I am of Paul ," and another , "I am of Apollos ," are you not mere men ?
5 What then is Apollos ? And what is Paul ? Servants through whom you believed , even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one . 6 I planted , Apollos watered , but God was causing the growth . 7 So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything , but God who causes the growth . 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one ; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor . 9 For we are God's fellow workers ; you are God's field , God's building . 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation , and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.
11 For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid , which is Jesus Christ . 12 Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold , silver , precious stones , wood , hay , straw , 13 each man's work will become evident ; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire , and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work . 14 If any man's work which he has built on it remains , he will receive a reward . 15 If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss ; but he himself will be saved , yet so as through fire .
16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If any man destroys the temple of God , God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy , and that is what you are.
18 Let no man deceive himself . If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age , he must become foolish , so that he may become wise . 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God . For it is written , "He is THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS "; 20 and again , " THE Lord KNOWS THE REASONINGS of the wise , THAT THEY ARE USELESS ."
21 So then let no one boast in men . For all things belong to you, 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come ; all things belong to you, 23 and you belong to Christ ; and Christ belongs to God .
