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11 ¶ Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and retain my instructions the same as I spoke unto you.
3 But I would have you know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonours his head.
5 But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonours her head, for that is even the same as if she were shaven.
6 For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn; but if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.
8 For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.
9 Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.
10 For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her head: because of the angels.
11 Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
13 Judge in yourselves: is it honest that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
14 Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man lets his hair grow, it is dishonest?
15 But if a woman lets her hair grow, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given her for a covering.
16 With all this, if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God.
17 ¶ Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not: that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
18 For first of all, when ye come together in the congregation, {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
19 For it is expedient that there also be heresies among you, so that those who are proved may become manifest among you.
20 So that when ye come together in one place, this is not eating the Lord’s supper.
21 For in eating, each one takes his own supper first: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
22 What? Do ye not have houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God and shame those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
23 ¶ For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread;
24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, after he had eaten supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood; do this each time that ye drink, in remembrance of me.
26 For each time that ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye declare the Lord’s death until he comes.
27 Therefore whoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28 But let each man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
29 For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
31 For if we would examine ourselves, we should not be judged.
32 But being judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
33 Therefore, my brothers, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another.
34 And if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home; that ye not come together unto judgment. And I will set the rest in order when I come.
12 ¶ Now regarding spiritual things, brothers, I would not have you ignore them.
2 Ye know that when ye were Gentiles, ye went, even as ye were led, unto the dumb idols.
3 Therefore I give you to understand, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus anathema and that no one can call Jesus Lord but by the Holy Spirit.
4 Now there is dispersal of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there is dispersal of ministries, but the same Lord.
6 And there is dispersal of operations, but it is the same God who works all in each one.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one to profit with.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit a word of wisdom; to another, a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;
9 to another, faith by the same Spirit; to another, gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10 to another, the operation of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, discerning of spirits; to another, different kinds of tongues; to another, the interpretation of tongues:
11 one and the same Spirit operates all these things, dispersing to each one his own gift as he wills.
12 ¶ For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also the Christ.
13 For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether we are Jews or Greeks, whether we are slaves or free, and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
14 For the body is not one member, but many.
15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?
16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?
18 But now God has set the members each one of them in the body, as it has pleased him.
19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
20 But now they are indeed many members, yet but one body.
21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
22 For those members of the body, which seem to be weaker, are much more necessary;
23 and those members of the body which we think to be more vile, these we dress with more abundant honour; and those in us who are more indecent have more honesty.
24 For those in us who are more honest need nothing, but God has ordered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that one which lacked,
25 that there should be no contradiction in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another.
26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; or if one member is honoured, all the members rejoice together.
27 ¶ Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular.
28 And God did set certain ones in the congregation: {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that faculties, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? do all have faculties?
30 Do all have gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
31 But earnestly pursue the best gifts, and yet I show unto you a more excellent way.
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