1 Corinthians 11–16

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.

Chapter 12

Now concerning spiritual things, my brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

²You know that when you were heathens, you went to dumb idols, according as you were led.

³Wherefore, I give you to understand that no man, speaking by the Spirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say The Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.

⁴Now there are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit.

⁵And there are diversities of ministries, but the same Lord.

⁶And there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who worketh all in all.

⁷And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto profit.

⁸To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom: and to another, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:

⁹To another, faith in the same spirit: to another, the grace of healing in one Spirit:

¹⁰To another the working of miracles: to another, prophecy: to another, the discerning of spirits: to another, diverse kinds of tongues: to another, interpretation of speeches.

¹¹But all these things, one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing to every one according as he will.

¹²For as the body is one and hath many members; and all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body: So also is Christ.

¹³For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free: and in one Spirit we have all been made to drink.

¹⁴For the body also is not one member, but many.

¹⁵If the foot should say: Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: Is it therefore not of the body?

¹⁶And if the ear should say: Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: Is it therefore not of the body?

¹⁷If the whole body were the eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?

¹⁸But now God hath set the members, every one of them, in the body as it hath pleased him.

¹⁹And if they all were one member, where would be the body?

²⁰But now there are many members indeed, yet one body.

²¹And the eye cannot say to the hand: I need not thy help. Nor again the head to the feet: I have no need of you.

²²Yea, much, more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body are more necessary

²³And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour: and those that are our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

²⁴But our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, giving to that which wanted the more abundant honour.

²⁵That there might be no schism in the body: but the members might be mutually careful one for another.

²⁶And if one member suffer any thing, all the members suffer with it: or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it.

²⁷Now you are the body of Christ and members of member.

²⁸And God indeed hath set some in the church; first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly doctors: after that miracles: then the graces of healings, helps, governments, kinds of tongues, interpretations of speeches.

²⁹Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all doctors?

³⁰Are all workers of miracles? Have all the grace of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

³¹But be zealous for the better gifts. And I shew unto you yet a more excellent way.

Chapter 13

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

²And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

³And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

⁴Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up,

⁵Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil:

⁶Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth:

⁷Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

⁸Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void or tongues shall cease or knowledge shall be destroyed.

⁹For we know in part: and we prophesy in part.

¹⁰But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

¹¹When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.

¹²We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known.

¹³And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.

Chapter 14

Follow after charity, be zealous for spiritual gifts; but rather that you may prophesy.

²For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man heareth. Yet by the Spirit he speaketh mysteries.

³But he that prophesieth speaketh to men unto edification and exhortation and comfort.

⁴He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself: but he that prophesieth, edifieth the church.

⁵And I would have you all to speak with tongues, but rather to prophesy. For greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues: unless perhaps he interpret, that the church may receive edification.

⁶But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either in revelation or in knowledge or in prophecy or in doctrine?

⁷Even things without life that give sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction of sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

⁸For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

⁹So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue plain speech, how shall it be known what is said? For you shall be speaking into the air.

¹⁰There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world: and none is without voice.

¹¹If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian: and he that speaketh a barbarian to me.

¹²So you also, forasmuch as you are zealous of spirits, seek to abound unto the edifying of the church.

¹³And therefore he that speaketh by a tongue, let him pray that he may…