³However, I want you to realize that Christ has authority over every man, a husband has authority over his wife, and God has authority over Christ. ⁴Every man who covers his head when he prays or speaks what God has revealed dishonors the one who has authority over him. ⁵Every woman who prays or speaks what God has revealed and has her head uncovered while she speaks dishonors the one who has authority over her. She is like the woman who has her head shaved. ⁶So if a woman doesn’t cover her head, she should cut off her hair. If it’s a disgrace for a woman to cut off her hair or shave her head, she should cover her head. ⁷A man should not cover his head. He is God’s image and glory. The woman, however, is man’s glory. ⁸Clearly, man wasn’t made from woman but woman from man. ⁹Man wasn’t created for woman but woman for man. ¹⁰Therefore, a woman should wear something on her head to show she is under ⸤someone’s⸥ authority, out of respect for the angels.

¹¹Yet, as believers in the Lord, women couldn’t exist without men and men couldn’t exist without women. ¹²As a woman came into existence from a man, so men come into existence by women, but everything comes from God.

¹³Judge your own situation. Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? ¹⁴Doesn’t nature itself teach you that it is disgraceful for a man to have long hair? ¹⁵Doesn’t it teach you that it is a woman’s pride to wear her hair long? Her hair is given to her in place of a covering. ¹⁶If anyone wants to argue about this ⸤they can’t, because⸥ we don’t have any custom like this—nor do any of the churches of God.

¹⁷I have no praise for you as I instruct you in the following matter: When you gather, it results in more harm than good. ¹⁸In the first place, I hear that when you gather as a church you split up into opposing groups. I believe some of what I hear. ¹⁹Factions have to exist in order to make it clear who the genuine believers among you are.

²⁰When you gather in the same place, you can’t possibly be eating the Lord’s Supper. ²¹Each of you eats his own supper ⸤without waiting for each other⸥. So one person goes hungry and another gets drunk. ²²Don’t you have homes in which to eat and drink? Do you despise God’s church and embarrass people who don’t have anything to eat? What can I say to you? Should I praise you? I won’t praise you for this. ²³After all, I passed on to you what I had received from the Lord.

On the night he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread ²⁴and spoke a prayer of thanksgiving. He broke the bread and said, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this to remember me.” ²⁵When supper was over, he did the same with the cup. He said, “This cup is the new promise^amade with my blood. Every time you drink from it, do it to remember me.” ²⁶Every time you eat this bread and drink from this cup, you tell about the Lord’s death until he comes.

²⁷Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks from the Lord’s cup in an improper way will be held responsible for the Lord’s body and blood. ²⁸With this in mind, individuals must determine whether what they are doing is proper when they eat the bread and drink from the cup. ²⁹Anyone who eats and drinks is eating and drinking a judgment against himself when he doesn’t recognize the Lord’s body.

³⁰This is the reason why many of you are weak and sick and quite a number ⸤of you⸥ have died. ³¹If we were judging ourselves correctly, we would not be judged. ³²But when the Lord judges us, he disciplines us so that we won’t be condemned along with the rest of the world.

³³Therefore, brothers and sisters, when you gather to eat, wait for each other. ³⁴Whoever is hungry should eat at home so that you don’t have a gathering that brings judgment on you.

I will give directions concerning the other matters when I come.

12TH CHAPTER

Spiritual Gifts

¹Brothers and sisters, I don’t want there to be any misunderstanding concerning spiritual gifts. ²You know that when you were unbelievers, every time you were led to worship false gods you were worshiping gods who couldn’t even speak. ³So I want you to know that no one speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is cursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

⁴There are different spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit gives them. ⁵There are different ways of serving, and yet the same Lord is served. ⁶There are different types of work to do, but the same God produces every gift in every person.

⁷The evidence of the Spirit’s presence is given to each person for the common good of everyone. ⁸The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak with wisdom. The same Spirit gives another person the ability to speak with knowledge. ⁹To another person the same Spirit gives ⸤courageous⸥ faith. To another person the same Spirit gives the ability to heal. ¹⁰Another can work miracles. Another can speak what God has revealed. Another can tell the difference between spirits. Another can speak in different kinds of languages. Another can interpret languages. ¹¹There is only one Spirit who does all these things by giving what God wants to give to each person.

¹²For example, the body is one unit and yet has many parts. As all the parts form one body, so it is with Christ. ¹³By one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether we are Jewish or Greek, slave or free, God gave all of us one Spirit to drink.

¹⁴As you know, the human body is not made up of only one part, but of many parts. ¹⁵Suppose a foot says, “I’m not a hand, so I’m not part of the body!” Would that mean it’s no longer part of the body? ¹⁶Or suppose an ear says, “I’m not an eye, so I’m not a part of the body!” Would that mean it’s no longer part of the body? ¹⁷If the whole body were an eye, how could it hear? If the whole body were an ear, how could it smell? ¹⁸So God put each and every part of the body together as he wanted it. ¹⁹How could it be a body if it only had one part? ²⁰So there are many parts but one body.

²¹An eye can’t say to a hand, “I don’t need you!” Or again, the head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” ²²The opposite is true. The parts of the body that we think are weaker are the ones we really need. ²³The parts of the body that we think are less honorable are the ones we give special honor. So our unpresentable parts are made more presentable. ²⁴However, our presentable parts don’t need this kind of treatment. God has put the body together and given special honor to the part that doesn’t have it. ²⁵God’s purpose was that the body should not be divided but rather that all of its parts should feel the same concern for each other. ²⁶If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts share its suffering. If one part is praised, all the others share in its happiness.

²⁷You are Christ’s body and each of you is an individual part of it. ²⁸In the church God has appointed first apostles, next prophets, third teachers, then those who perform miracles, then those who have the gift of healing, then those who help others, those who are managers, and those who can speak in a number of languages. ²⁹Not all believers are apostles, are they? Are all of them prophets? Do all of them teach? Do all of them perform miracles ³⁰or have gifts of healing? Can all of them speak in other languages or interpret languages?

³¹You ⸤only⸥ want the better gifts, but I will show you the best thing to do.^a

13TH CHAPTER

Love

¹I may speak in the languages of humans and of angels. But if I don’t have love, I am a loud gong or a clashing cymbal. ²I may have the gift to speak what God has revealed, and I may understand all mysteries and have all knowledge. I may even have enough faith to move mountains. But if I don’t have love, I am nothing. ³I may even give away all that I have and give up my body to be burned.^aBut if I don’t have love, none of these things will help me.

⁴Love is patient. Love is kind. Love isn’t jealous. It doesn’t sing its own praises. It isn’t arrogant. ⁵It isn’t rude. It doesn’t think about itself. It isn’t irritable. It doesn’t keep track of wrongs. ⁶It isn’t happy when injustice is done, but it is happy with the truth. ⁷Love never stops being patient, never stops believing, never stops hoping, never gives up.

⁸Love never comes to an end. There is the gift of speaking what God has revealed, but it will no longer be used. There is the gift of speaking in other languages, but it will stop by itself. There is the gift of knowledge, but it will no longer be used. ⁹Our knowledge is incomplete and our ability to speak what God has revealed is incomplete. ¹⁰But when what is complete comes, then what is incomplete will no longer be used. ¹¹When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I no longer used childish ways. ¹²Now we see a blurred image in a mirror. Then we will see very clearly. Now my knowledge is incomplete. Then I will have complete knowledge as God has complete knowledge of me.

¹³So these three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the best one of these is love.

14TH CHAPTER

Speak in Ways That Can Be Understood

¹Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially the gift of speaking what God has revealed. ²When a person speaks in another language, he doesn’t speak to people but to God. No one understands him. His spirit is speaking mysteries. ³But when a person speaks what God has revealed, he speaks to people to help them grow, to encourage them, and to comfort them. ⁴When a person speaks in another language, he helps himself grow. But when a person speaks what God has revealed, he helps the church grow. ⁵I wish that all of you could speak in other languages, but especially that you could speak what God has revealed. The person who speaks…

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Footnotes

a 11:25 Or “testament,” or “covenant.”
a 12:31 Or “Desire the better gifts, and I will show you the best thing to do.”
a 13:3 Some manuscripts read “give up my body so that I may brag.”