1 Corinthians 10–11

Chapter 10

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea.

²And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea:

³And did all eat the same spiritual food:

⁴And all drank the same spiritual drink: (And they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.)

⁵But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

⁶Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted.

⁷Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

⁸Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

⁹Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and perished by the serpent.

¹⁰Neither do you murmur, as some of them murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.

¹¹Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

¹²Wherefore, he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest he fall.

¹³Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.

¹⁴Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols.

¹⁵I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves what I say.

¹⁶The chalice of benediction which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord?

¹⁷For we, being many, are one bread, one body: all that partake of one bread.

¹⁸Behold Israel according to the flesh. Are not they that eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

¹⁹What then? Do I say that what is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? Or that the idol is any thing?

²⁰But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils.

²¹You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord and the chalice of devils: you cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord and of the table of devils.

²²Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me: but all things are not expedient.

²³All things are lawful for me: but all things do not edify.

²⁴Let no man seek his own, but that which is another’s.

²⁵Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat: asking no question for conscience’ sake.

²⁶The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof.

²⁷If any of them that believe not, invite you, and you be willing to go: eat of any thing that is set before you, asking no question for conscience’ sake.

²⁸But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols: do not eat of it, for his sake that told it and for conscience’ sake.

²⁹Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other’s. For why is my liberty judged by another man’s conscience?

³⁰If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

³¹Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do, do all to the glory of God.

³²Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the church of God:

³³As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself but to many: that they may be saved.

Chapter 11

Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

²Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of me and keep my ordinances as I have delivered them to you.

³But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ: and the head of the woman is the man: and the head of Christ is God.

⁴Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered disgraceth his head.

⁵But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven.

⁶For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn. But if it be a shame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let her cover her head.

⁷The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

⁸For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.

⁹For the man was not created for the woman: but the woman for the man.

¹⁰Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her head, because of the angels.

¹¹But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.

¹²For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things of God.

¹³You yourselves judge. Doth it become a woman to pray unto God uncovered?

¹⁴Doth not even nature itself teach you that a man indeed, if he nourish his hair, it is a shame unto him?

¹⁵But if a woman nourish her hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering.

¹⁶But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the Church of God.

¹⁷Now this I ordain: not praising you, that you come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

¹⁸For first of all I hear that when you come together in the church, there are schisms among you. And in part I believe it.

¹⁹For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are approved may be made manifest among you.

²⁰When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now to eat the Lord’s supper.

²¹For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk.

²²What, have you no houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not.

²³For 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,

²⁴And giving thanks, broke and said: Take ye and eat: This is my body, which shall be delivered for you. This do for the commemoration of me.

²⁵In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood. This do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me.

²⁶For as often as you shall eat this bread and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come.

²⁷Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord.

²⁸But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the chalice.

²⁹For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.

³⁰Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many sleep.

³¹But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

³²But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.

³³Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

³⁴If any man be hungry, let him eat at home; that you come not together unto judgment. And the rest I will set in order, when I come.