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1 Corinthians 11
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Chapter 11
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DECORUM IN PUBLIC WORSHIP
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Take me for your model, as I take Christ.
Women’s behaviour at services
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You have done well in remembering me so constantly and in maintaining the traditions just as I passed them on to you.
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However, what I want you to understand is that Christ is the head of every man, man is the head of woman, and God is the head of Christ.
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For a man to pray or prophesy with his head covered is a sign of disrespect to his head.[*a]
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For a woman, however, it is a sign of disrespect to her head[*b] if she prays or prophesies unveiled; she might as well have her hair shaved off.
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In fact, a woman who will not wear a veil ought to have her hair cut off. If a woman is ashamed to have her hair cut off or shaved, she ought to wear a veil.
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A man should certainly not cover his head, since he is the image of God and reflects God’s glory; but woman is the reflection of man’s glory.
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For man did not come from woman; no, woman came from man;
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and man was not created for the sake of woman, but woman was created for the sake of man.
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That is the argument for women’s covering their heads with a symbol of the authority over them, out of respect for the angels[*c].
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However, though woman cannot do without man, neither can man do without woman, in the Lord;
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woman may come from man, but man is born of woman – both come from God.
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Ask yourselves if it is fitting for a woman to pray to God without a veil;
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and whether nature itself does not tell you that long hair on a man is nothing to be admired,
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while a woman, who was given her hair as a covering, thinks long hair her glory?
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To anyone who might still want to argue: it is not the custom with us, nor in the churches of God.
The Lord’s Supper
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Now that I am on the subject of instructions, I cannot say that you have done well in holding meetings that do you more harm than good.
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In the first place, I hear that when you all come together as a community, there are separate factions among you, and I half believe it –
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since there must no doubt be separate groups among you, to distinguish those who are to be trusted.
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The point is, when you hold these meetings, it is not the Lord’s Supper[*d] that you are eating,
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since when the time comes to eat, everyone is in such a hurry to start his own supper that one person goes hungry while another is getting drunk.
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Surely you have homes for eating and drinking in? Surely you have enough respect for the community of God not to make poor people embarrassed? What am I to say to you? Congratulate you? I cannot congratulate you on this.
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For this is what I received from the Lord, and in turn passed on to you: that on the same night that he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread,
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and thanked God for it and broke it, and he said, ‘This is my body, which is for you; do this as a memorial of me’.
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In the same way he took the cup after supper, and said, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Whenever you drink it, do this as a memorial of me.’
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Until the Lord comes, therefore, every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are proclaiming his death,
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and so anyone who eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will be behaving unworthily towards the body and blood of the Lord.
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Everyone is to recollect himself before eating this bread and drinking this cup;
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because a person who eats and drinks without recognising the Body is eating and drinking his own condemnation.
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In fact that is why many of you are weak and ill and some of you have died.
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If only we recollected ourselves, we should not be punished like that.
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But when the Lord does punish us like that, it is to correct us and stop us from being condemned with the world.
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So to sum up, my dear brothers, when you meet for the Meal, wait for one another.
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Anyone who is hungry should eat at home, and then your meeting will not bring your condemnation. The other matters I shall adjust when I come.
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