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1 Corinthians 11

He rebuketh the abuses which were crept into their Church, 4 As touching prayer, prophesying, 18 And ministering the Lord’s Supper, 23 Bringing them again to the first institution thereof.
1.Be *ye the followers of me, even as I am of Christ.
2.Now, brethren, I commend you, that ye remember ^all my things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
3.But I will that ye know, that Christ is the *head of every man: and the man is the woman’s head: and God is Christ’s head.
4.Every man apraying or ^prophesying having any thing on his head, bdishonoureth his head.
5.But every woman that prayeth or cprophecieth bareheaded, dishonoureth her head: for it is even one very thing, as though she were shaven.
6.Therefore if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: and if it be shame for a woman to be ^shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
7.For a man ought not to cover his head: forasmuch as he is the *dimage & glory of God: but the woman is the eglory of the man.
8.For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.
9.*For the man was not created for the woman’s sake: but the woman for the man’s sake.
10.Therefore ought the woman to have fpower on her head, because of the gAngels.
11.Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the hiLord.
12.For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman: but all things are of God.
13.Judge in your selves, is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
14.Doeth not nature it self teach you, that if a man have long khair, it is a shame unto him?
15.But if a woman have long hair, it is a praise unto her: for her hair is lgiven her for a covering.
16.But if any man lust to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the Churches of God.
17.¶ Now in this that I declare, I praise you not, that ye come together, not with profit, but with hurt.
18.For first of all, when ye come together in the Church, I hear that there are dissensions among you: and I believe it to be true min some part.
19.For there must be nheresies even among you, that they which are approved among you, might be known.
20.When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s Supper.
21.For every man when they should eat, taketh his own supper afore, and one is hungrie, and another is drunken.
22.Have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? despise ye the Church of God, and shame them 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 oLord that which I also have delivered unto you, to wit, That the Lord Jesus in the night that he was betrayed, took bread.
24.*And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is pbroken for you: this do ye in remembrance of me.
25.After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the New testament in my blood: this do as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26.For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye shewe the Lord’s death till he come.
27.Wherefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink the cup of the Lord qunworthily, shalbe guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28.*Let a man therefore examine him self, and so let him eat of this bread, and drink of this cup.
29.For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth & drinketh his own damnation, because he discerneth not rthe Lord’s body.
30.For this cause many are weak, and sick among you, and many ssleep.
31.For if we would judge our selves, we should not be judged.
32.But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, because we should not be condemned with the world.
33.Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
34.And if any man be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye come not together unto condemnation. Other things will I set in order when I come.

Notes

1-*.
2 Thes. 3.9.
2-^.
Or, in all things remember me.
3-*.
Eph. 5.23.
4-^.
Or, preaching.
4-a.
This is referred to common prayer and preaching: for although one speak, yet the action is common, so that the whole Church may be said to pray or preach.
4-b.
This tradition was observed according to the time and place that all things might be done in comeliness and to edification.
5-c.
Read chap. 14.34.
6-^.
Or, powlled (shaved like a boy).
7-*.
Gen. 1.26, 5.1 and 9.6, Col. 3.10.
7-d.
The image of God’s glory, in whom his majesty and power shine concerning his authority.
7-e.
Or receives her glory, in commendation of man, and therefore is subject.
9-*.
Gen. 2.22.
10-f.
Some thing to cover her head in sign of subjection.
10-g.
To whom they also show their dissolution, and not only to Christ.
11-h.
Who is author and maintainner of their mutual conjunction.
11-i.
For as God made the woman of man, so now is man multiplied by the woman.
14-k.
As women use to wear.
15-l.
For God has given to woman longer hair then unto man, to the end she should trusse it up about her head, whereby she declares that she must cover her head.
18-m.
Not that all were so, but the most part.
19-n.
God’s Church is not only subject to dissensions as touching orders and manners, but also to heresies as touching doctrine.
23-o.
Who ought only to bear authority in the Church.
24-*.
Mat. 26.26, Mar. 14.22, Luk. 12.19.
24-p.
Signifying the manner of his death when his body should, as it were, be torn and broken with most grievous torments (albeit not as the thies of the thieves were) the which thing the breaking of the bread, as a figure, does most lively represent.
27-q.
By perverting the true and pure use of the same.
28-*.
2 Cor. 13.5.
29-r.
But as though these holy mysteries of the Lord’s body and blood were common meats, so without reverence he comes unto them.
30-s.
Or, die. Let them look to themselves which either add or take away from the Lord’s institution.