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The First Letter to the Corinthians 11

11 Do what I do, just like I do what Christ did.

2 I commend you because you always think of what I teach and do and because you carefully believe and do what I taught you to believe and do. 3 I am telling you that each man comes from the Messiah. A wife comes from her husband. Finally, the Messiah comes from God. 4 Men might cover their heads when they pray or proclaim what God says. Those who do this shame the person they come from: the Messiah. 5 Now women might bare their heads when they pray or proclaim what God says. Those who do this shame the people they come from: their husbands. You can tell that this is true, because a woman who bares her head is like a woman whose hair someone has shaved off. 6 In fact, someone should cut short the hair of any woman who bares her head. Since people shame a woman who has short hair, women should not bare their heads. 7 Further, on the one hand, men should not cover their heads, because they represent and honor God. On the other hand, wives honor their husbands. 8 You can tell that this is true because God did not make the man Adam from the woman Eve. Rather, he made the woman Eve from the man Adam. 9 Another way that you can tell that this is true is because God did not make the man Adam for the sake of the woman Eve. Rather, he made the woman Eve for the sake of the man Adam. 10 Because wives honor their husbands, women should control what they wear on their heads. They should do this also because of the powerful spiritual beings.

11 Despite all that, when God unites people to the Messiah, women cannot exist without men, and men cannot exist without women. 12 In fact, while the woman Eve did come from the man Adam, men only exist because women give birth to them. However, everything that exists, including men and women, comes from God. 13 You yourselves should decide whether women who pray to God without covering their heads act appropriately or not. 14 You can learn from observing the way things are that it is dishonorable for men to have long hair. 15 However, you can also learn from observing the way things are that it is honorable for women to have long hair. This is because God has given women their long hair, which functions to cover their heads. 16 Now if any people consider arguing about what I have said, neither we nor God’s churches allow women to uncover their heads when they pray or prophesy.

17 I am now going to instruct you about another topic, and I cannot commend you in this area. I cannot commend you, because you harm fellow believers instead of helping them when you gather as fellow believers. 18 Here is the first thing I will speak about: some people have told me that you split up into rival groups when you gather as fellow believers to worship God. I believe that this is partly true. 19 I believe it because there need to be disagreements in your group. That way, it may become clear to everyone whom in your group God considers to be acceptable to him. 20 Because of these divisions, you are not actually eating the Lord’s Supper when you gather as fellow believers together to eat. 21 During your meals, some people are eating their own food before others receive some. In this way, some people do not have enough to eat, while other people are getting drunk. 22 You act in these ways despite the fact that you can eat food and drink wine in your own houses. Instead, though, you think contemptuously about God’s church. In particular, you shame people who have less than you do. You should already know what I will say to you. I am not going to commend you for doing these things. I will definitely not do that!

23 I have already told you what I learned from the Lord about the night when Judas handed the Lord Jesus over to the authorities, who executed him. During that night, Jesus picked up a loaf of bread. 24 He thanked God for the loaf of bread, and then he tore it into pieces so that the disciples could eat it. Then he said, “This bread is my body, which I am offering for your sake. Repeat what I have done so that you remember how I am offering myself for you.” 25 Just as he picked up the loaf of bread, he also picked up the cup of wine after they had eaten. He said, “This cup of wine is the new covenant that I am inaugurating with my blood. Repeat what I have done whenever you drink from this cup of wine so that you remember how I am offering myself for you.” 26 This means that, until the Lord comes back, whenever you participate in the Lord’s Supper by eating this bread and drinking wine from this cup, you announce that the Lord has died.

27 So then, some people, while participating in the Lord’s Supper, might eat the bread or drink wine from the cup in a way that dishonors the Messiah. God will hold them responsible for how they have acted against the Lord’s body and blood. 28 To avoid that, believers should carefully consider how they are behaving. Then, they can eat the bread and drink wine from the cup. 29 You should carefully consider how you are behaving, because some people eat and drink during the Lord’s Supper but do not recognize that God has united fellow believers to the Lord as closely as if they were the Lord’s body. How those people eat and drink during the Lord’s Supper will result in God punishing them. 30 Because people in your group have acted in that improper way, many of them have gotten sick and some of them have died. 31 So, we believers really should carefully consider how we are acting before we participate in the Lord’s Supper. Then, God will not punish us. 32 However, when the Lord does punish us, he does it to train us. That way, God does not include us when he declares everyone who does not believe in the Messiah to be guilty.

33 In conclusion, my fellow believers, when you gather together to eat the Lord’s Supper, you should not start eating until everyone has received food and drink. 34 Any people who are so hungry that they start eating before everyone has received food and drink should eat at their own houses. That way, when you gather together as fellow believers, God will not punish you.

I have not said everything that I need to say. So, I will instruct you about those things whenever I visit you.

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