1 Corinthians 11–16

¹Followers of me become ye, as I also am of Christ. ²And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep, ³and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God. ⁴Every man praying or prophesying, having the head covered, doth dishonour his head, ⁵and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, doth dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven, ⁶for if a woman is not covered—then let her be shorn, and if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven—let her be covered; ⁷for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man, ⁸for a man is not of a woman, but a woman is of a man, ⁹for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man; ¹⁰because of this the woman ought to have a token of authority upon the head, because of the messengers; ¹¹but neither is a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord, ¹²for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, and the all things are of God. ¹³In your own selves judge ye; is it seemly for a woman uncovered to pray to God? ¹⁴doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him? ¹⁵and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her; ¹⁶and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.

¹⁷And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together; ¹⁸for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe it, ¹⁹for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you; ²⁰ye, then, coming together at the same place—it is not to eat the Lord’s supper; ²¹for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk; ²²why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!

²³For I—I received from the Lord that which also I did deliver to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread, ²⁴and having given thanks, he brake, and said, ‘Take ye, eat ye, this is my body, that for you is being broken; this do ye—to the remembrance of me.’ ²⁵In like manner also the cup after the supping, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood; this do ye, as often as ye may drink it—to the remembrance of me;’ ²⁶for as often as ye may eat this bread, and this cup may drink, the death of the Lord ye do shew forth—till he may come; ²⁷so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord: ²⁸and let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink; ²⁹for he who is eating and drinking unworthily, judgment to himself he doth eat and drink—not discerning the body of the Lord. ³⁰Because of this, among you many are weak and sickly, and sleep do many; ³¹for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged, ³²and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned; ³³so then, my brethren, coming together to eat, for one another wait ye; ³⁴and if any one is hungry, at home let him eat, that to judgment ye may not come together; and the rest, whenever I may come, I shall arrange.

Chapter 12

¹And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant; ²ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols—as ye were led—being carried away; ³wherefore, I give you to understand that no one, in the Spirit of God speaking, saith Jesus is anathema, and no one is able to say Jesus is Lord, except in the Holy Spirit. ⁴And there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit; ⁵and there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord; ⁶and there are diversities of workings, and it is the same God—who is working the all in all. ⁷And to each hath been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit; ⁸for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; ⁹and to another faith in the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings in the same Spirit; ¹⁰and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another divers kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues: ¹¹and all these doth work the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally as he intendeth.

¹²For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ, ¹³for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink, ¹⁴for also the body is not one member, but many; ¹⁵if the foot may say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;’ it is not, because of this, not of the body; ¹⁶and if the ear may say, ‘Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;’ it is not, because of this, not of the body? ¹⁷If the whole body were an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling? ¹⁸and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed, ¹⁹and if all were one member, where the body? ²⁰and now, indeed, are many members, and one body; ²¹and an eye is not able to say to the hand, ‘I have no need of thee;’ nor again the head to the feet, ‘I have no need of you.’ ²²But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary, ²³and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant, ²⁴and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour, ²⁵that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another, ²⁶and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with it do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with it do all the members.

²⁷And ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. ²⁸And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues; ²⁹are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all powers? ³⁰have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? ³¹and desire earnestly the better gifts; and yet a far excelling way do I shew to you:

Chapter 13

¹If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; ²and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing; ³and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

⁴The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, ⁵doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil, ⁶rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth; ⁷all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

⁸The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless; ⁹for in part we know, and in part we prophecy; ¹⁰and when that which is perfect may come, then that which is in part shall become useless. ¹¹When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe; ¹²for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known; ¹³and now there doth remain faith, hope, love—these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Chapter 14

¹Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, ²for he who is speaking in an unknown tongue—to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets; ³and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort; ⁴he who is speaking in an unknown tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify; ⁵and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

⁶And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching? ⁷yet the things without life giving sound—whether pipe or harp—if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped? ⁸for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle? ⁹so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give—how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air. ¹⁰There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning, ¹¹if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner; ¹²so…