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| 11 | 1 Corinthians |
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Follow my example as I follow Christ's.
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I COMMEND YOU for always keeping me in mind, and maintaining the tradition I handed on to you. | The Covering of Women's Heads 1Cor.11.2-16 |
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But I wish you to understand that, while every man has Christ for his Head, woman's head is man, as Christ's Head is God. | |
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A man who keeps his head covered when he prays or prophesies brings shame on his head; | |
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a woman, on the contrary, brings shame on her head if she prays or prophesies bareheaded: it is as bad as if her head were shaved. | |
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If a woman is not to wear a veil she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for her to be cropped and shaved, then she should wear a veil. | |
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A man has no need to cover his head, because man is the image of God, and the mirror of his glory, whereas woman reflects the glory of man. | |
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For man did not originally spring from woman, but woman was made out of man; | |
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and man was not created for woman's sake, but woman for the sake of man; | |
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and therefore it is woman's duty to have a sign of authority on her head, out of regard for the angels. | |
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And yet, in Christ's fellowship woman is as essential to man as man to woman. | |
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If woman was made out of man, it is through woman that man now comes to be; and God is the source of all.
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Judge for yourselves: is it fitting for a woman to pray to God bare-headed? | |
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Does not Nature herself teach you that while flowing locks disgrace a man, they are a woman's glory? | |
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For her locks were given for covering.
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However, if you insist on arguing, let me tell you, there is no such custom among us, or in any of the congregations of God's people.
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In giving you these injunctions I must mention a practice which I cannot commend: your meetings tend to do more harm than good. | Abuses at the Lord's Supper 1Cor.11.17-22 |
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To begin with, I am told that when you meet as a congregation you fall into sharply divided groups; and I believe there is some truth in it | |
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(for dissensions are necessary if only to show which of your members are sound). | |
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The result is that when you meet as a congregation, it is impossible for you to eat the Lord's Supper, | |
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because each of you is in such a hurry to eat his own, and while one goes hungry another has too much to drink. | |
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Have you no homes of your own to eat and drink in? Or are you so contemptuous of the church of God that you shame its poorer members? What am I to say? Can I commend you? On this point, certainly not!
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For the tradition which I handed on to you came to me from the Lord himself: that the Lord Jesus, on the night of his arrest, took bread and, | The Institution of the Lord's Supper 1Cor.11.23-25 |
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after giving thanks to God, broke it and 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 sealed by my blood. Whenever you drink it, do this as a memorial of me.' | |
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For every time you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord, until he comes.
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It follows that anyone who eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will be guilty of desecrating the body and blood of the Lord. | Partaking of the Supper Unworthily 1Cor.11.27-34 |
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A man must test himself before eating his share of the bread and drinking from the cup. | |
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For he who eats and drinks eats and drinks judgement on himself if he does not discern the Body. | |
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That is why many of you are feeble and sick, and a number have died. | |
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But if we examined ourselves, we should not thus fall under judgement. | |
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When, however, we do fall under the Lord's judgement, he is disciplining us, to save us from being condemned with the rest of the world. | |
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Therefore, my brothers, when you meet for a meal, wait for one another. | |
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If you are hungry, eat at home, so that in meeting together you may not fall under judgement. The other matters I will arrange when I come.
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