¹For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; ²and all were baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; ³and all ate the same spiritual food, ⁴and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them: (now the rock was the Christ;) ⁵yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.

⁶But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted. ⁷Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. ⁸Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. ⁹Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents. ¹⁰Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer. ¹¹Now all these things happened to them as types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. ¹²So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. ¹³No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man’s nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to bear, but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that ye should be able to bear it. ¹⁴Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

¹⁵I speak as to intelligent persons: do ye judge what I say. ¹⁶The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of the Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of the Christ? ¹⁷Because we, being many, are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of that one loaf. ¹⁸See Israel according to flesh: are not they who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar? ¹⁹What then do I say? that what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? ²⁰But that what the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons. ²¹Ye cannot drink the Lord’s cup, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the Lord’s table, and of the table of demons. ²²Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

²³All things are lawful, but all are not profitable; all things are lawful, but all do not edify. ²⁴Let no one seek his own advantage, but that of the other. ²⁵Everything sold in the shambles eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake. ²⁶For the earth is the Lord’s and its fulness. ²⁷But if any one of the unbelievers invite you, and ye are minded to go, all that is set before you eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake. ²⁸But if any one say to you, This is offered to holy purposes, do not eat, for his sake that pointed it out, and conscience sake; ²⁹but conscience, I mean, not thine own, but that of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another conscience? ³⁰If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I spoken evil of for what I give thanks for? ³¹Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all things to God’s glory. ³²Give no occasion to stumbling, whether to Jews, or Greeks, or the assembly of God. ³³Even as I also please all in all things; not seeking my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

Chapter 11

¹Be my imitators, even as I also am of Christ. ²Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions. ³But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman’s head is the man, and the Christ’s head God. ⁴Every man praying or prophesying, having anything on his head, puts his head to shame. ⁵But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved woman. ⁶For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it be shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered. ⁷For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God’s image and glory; but woman is man’s glory. ⁸For man is not of woman, but woman of man. ⁹For also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man. ¹⁰Therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head, on account of the angels. ¹¹However, neither is woman without man, nor man without woman, in the Lord. ¹²For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman, but all things of God. ¹³Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered? ¹⁴Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him? ¹⁵But woman, if she have long hair, it is glory to her; for the long hair is given to her in lieu of a veil. ¹⁶But if any one think to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God.

¹⁷But in prescribing to you on this which I now enter on, I do not praise, namely, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse. ¹⁸For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit to it. ¹⁹For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you. ²⁰When ye come therefore together into one place, it is not to eat the Lord’s supper. ²¹For each one in eating takes his own supper before others, and one is hungry and another drinks to excess. ²²Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this point I do not praise.

²³For I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread, ²⁴and having given thanks broke it, and said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me. ²⁵In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me. ²⁶For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come. ²⁷So that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord. ²⁸But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. ²⁹For the eater and drinker eats and drinks judgment to himself, not distinguishing the body. ³⁰On this account many among you are weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep. ³¹But if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged. ³²But being judged, we are disciplined of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. ³³So that, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another. ³⁴If any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for judgment. But the other things, whenever I come, I will set in order.

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