1 Corinthians 11:11-24

¹¹Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

¹²For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

¹³Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?

¹⁴Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonour to him?

¹⁵But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.

¹⁶But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.

¹⁷But in giving you this command I don’t praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

¹⁸For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist amongst you, and I partly believe it.

¹⁹For there also must be factions amongst you, that those who are approved may be revealed amongst you.

²⁰When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.

²¹For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

²²What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

²³For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.

²⁴When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”