1So you try to be like me, just like I try to be like Jesus Christ, and live the way he lived.
2There is another thing I want to talk to you about now. I know you always remember me, and you do the things I taught you. This makes me very happy.
3But I also want you to know this. Jesus Christ is the leader of every man, like he is the head one. And men are the leaders of women, like they are the head ones. And God is the head one of Jesus Christ.
4So think about this when you meet together, and think about what other people might reckon when they see what you do. If a man prays, or if he tells a message from God in your meeting, he can’t cover his head. If he covers his head, other people will reckon that he isn’t following his leader, and this will shame his leader, Jesus.
5But for women it is different. If a woman prays in your meeting, or if she tells a message from God, that woman has to cover her head. If she doesn’t cover her head, other people will reckon she isn’t following her leader, her husband, and this will shame him. You know, if somebody cuts all the hair off a woman’s head, that will shame her. And like that, if a woman doesn’t cover her head in your meetings, she shames her husband.
6If she will not cover her head, maybe she will cut off all her hair, right? No. If she does that she will shame herself. She can’t do that. And she can’t shame her husband either. So she has to cover her head in your meetings.
7You see, God made the man like himself, to show everyone that God is great and good. So a man can’t cover his head. He has to show that he respects God. And a man looks after his wife, and she shows how good her husband is, so she has to cover her head to show that she respects him.
8Remember that God made the man first, then he made the woman. He took a part of that first man to make the first woman. God didn’t take a part of that first woman to make the man.
9And God didn’t make the first man to help the woman, but he made the first woman to help the man.
10So a woman has to cover her head to show that she respects her husband as her leader. And you know, God’s angel messengers can see everything we do.
11You see, we all belong to Jesus, our leader. And in his family the women need the men and the men need the women.
12It’s like this, God made the first woman by taking a part of the first man, but after that every man was born from a woman. But everything really comes from God.
13So if a woman in your meeting doesn’t cover her head when she prays to God, do you reckon that’s all right? You work it out for yourselves.
14It is usually like this. If a man has long hair, people will rubbish him.
15But if a woman has long hair, it is beautiful and people will say she looks good. God gave her long hair to her to cover her.
16I know some people might want to argue with me about all of this, but I’m telling you that this is our custom. This is what we Christians do. All of God’s churches do this when they meet together.
17There is something else now that I have to talk to you about. I’m not happy about what happens at your meetings. They are not good, they are bad.
18You see, some people told me what happens at your church meetings. They say that there are different groups among you, and each group argues with the others when you meet together. And I believe that some of this is true.
19Look, you don’t have to split up into different groups, but if you do, God will show which one of you is right.
20And when you meet together, you reckon you eat a meal to remember that Jesus died for us. But you don’t really do that. You don’t even share your food with each other at that meal, so you are not respecting Jesus.
21You bring your own food and drink, but nobody shares their food with anybody else. And none of you waits for anyone else. So some of you go hungry, while others get drunk.
22Listen. You each have your own home where you can eat and drink. But there are poor people that have no food at your meetings, and if you don’t share your food with them, you shame them. That is bad. You are rubbishing God’s people, his church. I’m not happy with you when you do that. I can’t say anything good about you.
23Listen. Our leader Jesus gave me this message, and I taught it to you. It is this. One night Jesus, our leader, had a meal with his close followers, and on that same night one of those followers turned against him and helped his enemies get him. At that meal Jesus picked up some flat damper
24and thanked God for it, then he broke it into bits and said, “This damper is my body. You see, I will let bad people break my body. I will do that for you. So whenever you have this ceremony and eat this special meal, remember what I did for you.”
25Then after they ate that meal, Jesus picked up a cup of wine and said, “Drink from this cup. God has agreed to save people, and I will die so he can do that. My blood will come out, and it is like I’m using my blood to sign God’s new agreement with everyone. So every time you have this special meal and drink from this cup, remember that my blood came out and I died for you.” That’s what Jesus said that night.
26You see, every time you eat that damper and drink from that cup you are saying that Jesus died for you. And you will keep on doing that until he comes back again.
27You see, we want to remember that Jesus died for us, so we eat this damper and we drink from this cup together. But if anyone does it in a bad way that doesn’t respect Jesus, they are guilty. They are just as guilty as those people that hurt Jesus’s body and spilled his blood.
28So, when we eat this meal together, first of all we each have to think very carefully about ourselves and the way we live our lives. We have to be friends again with God, and with other Christians, and we have to think the right way about that damper and that cup. Then, after we do that, we can eat that damper and we can drink from that cup.
29You see, if anyone doesn’t respect the body of Jesus when they eat that damper and drink from that cup, they are doing wrong, and God will judge them and punish them.
30That is why a lot of you are weak and sick now, and some of your mob have died.
31But if we think carefully about ourselves and how we live, and if we are sorry for the wrong things we did, God will not punish us.
32But if God does punish us, he does it to teach us to do good things, not bad things. So later, when God judges everyone in the world, he will not punish us with the bad people.
33So, my friends, this is what I’m telling you. Whenever you meet together to eat that ceremony meal, to remember that Jesus died for you, wait for each other to be ready.
34And don’t come to that meeting hungry. If you are hungry, eat something at home before you come to the meeting, so when you meet together, you will not do wrong and God will not punish you. That’s all I want to say about this matter right now. There are some other things that I want to talk to you about, but I will wait until I come and visit you, and then we can sort them out.
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