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Giovedi, 28 marzo 2024 - San Castore di Tarso ( Letture di oggi)

1 Corinthians 11


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1Take me as your pattern, just as I take Christ for mine.2I congratulate you for remembering me so consistently and for maintaining the traditions exactly as Ipassed them on to you.3But I should like you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man,and the head of Christ is God.4For any man to pray or to prophesy with his head covered shows disrespect for his head.5And for a woman to pray or prophesy with her head uncovered shows disrespect for her head; it isexactly the same as if she had her hair shaved off.6Indeed, if a woman does go without a veil, she should have her hair cut off too; but if it is a shamefulthing for a woman to have her hair cut off or shaved off, then she should wear a veil.7But for a man it is not right to have his head covered, since he is the image of God and reflects God'sglory; but woman is the reflection of man's glory.8For man did not come from woman; no, woman came from man;9nor was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for the sake of man:10and this is why it is right for a woman to wear on her head a sign of the authority over her, becauseof the angels.11However, in the Lord, though woman is nothing without man, man is nothing without woman;12and though woman came from man, so does every man come from a woman, and everything comesfrom God.13Decide for yourselves: does it seem fitting that a woman should pray to God without a veil?14Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,15but when a woman has long hair, it is her glory? After all, her hair was given to her to be a covering.16If anyone wants to be contentious, I say that we have no such custom, nor do any of the churches ofGod.17Now that I am on the subject of instructions, I cannot congratulate you on the meetings you hold;they do more harm than good.18In the first place, I hear that when you al come together in your assembly, there are separatefactions among you, and to some extent I believe it.19It is no bad thing, either, that there should be differing groups among you so that those who are to betrusted among you can be clearly recognised.20So, when you meet together, it is not the Lord's Supper that you eat;21for when the eating begins, each one of you has his own supper first, and there is one going hungrywhile another is getting drunk.22Surely you have homes for doing your eating and drinking in? Or have you such disregard for God'sassembly that you can put to shame those who have nothing? What am I to say to you? Congratulate you? Onthis I cannot congratulate you.23For the tradition I received from the Lord and also handed on to you is that on the night he wasbetrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread,24and after he had given thanks, he broke it, and he said, 'This is my body, which is for you; do this inremembrance of me.'25And in the same way, with the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood.Whenever you drink it, do this as a memorial of me.'26Whenever you eat this bread, then, and drink this cup, you are proclaiming the Lord's death until hecomes.27Therefore anyone who eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily is answerable for thebody and blood of the Lord.28Everyone is to examine himself and only then eat of the bread or drink from the cup;29because a person who eats and drinks without recognising the body is eating and drinking his owncondemnation.30That is why many of you are weak and il and a good number have died.31If we were critical of ourselves we would not be condemned,32but when we are judged by the Lord, we are corrected by the Lord to save us from being condemnedalong with the world.33So then, my brothers, when you meet for the Meal, wait for each other;34anyone who is hungry should eat at home. Then your meeting wil not bring your condemnation. Theother matters I shal arrange when I come.