1 Corinthians 11

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Take me as your pattern, just as I take Christ for mine.	1 Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.
2 I congratulate you for remembering me so consistently and for maintaining the traditions exactly as Ipassed them on to you.	2 Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of me: and keep my ordinances as I have delivered them to you.
3 But 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.	3 But 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.
4 For any man to pray or to prophesy with his head covered shows disrespect for his head.	4 Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered, disgraceth his head.
5 And 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.	5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered, disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven.
6 Indeed, 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.	6 For 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.
7 But 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.	7 The 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.
8 For man did not come from woman; no, woman came from man;	8 For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.
9 nor was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for the sake of man:	9 For the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.
10 and this is why it is right for a woman to wear on her head a sign of the authority over her, becauseof the angels.	10 Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her head, because of the angels.
11 However, in the Lord, though woman is nothing without man, man is nothing without woman;	11 But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.
12 and though woman came from man, so does every man come from a woman, and everything comesfrom God.	12 For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things of God.
13 Decide for yourselves: does it seem fitting that a woman should pray to God without a veil?	13 You yourselves judge: doth it become a woman, to pray unto God uncovered?
14 Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,	14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that a man indeed, if he nourish his hair, it is a shame unto him?
15 but when a woman has long hair, it is her glory? After all, her hair was given to her to be a covering.	15 But if a woman nourish her hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering.
16 If anyone wants to be contentious, I say that we have no such custom, nor do any of the churches ofGod.	16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the church of God.
17 Now that I am on the subject of instructions, I cannot congratulate you on the meetings you hold;they do more harm than good.	17 Now this I ordain: not praising you, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse.
18 In 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.	18 For first of all I hear that when you come together in the church, there are schisms among you; and in part I believe it.
19 It 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.	19 For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are approved, may be made manifest among you.
20 So, when you meet together, it is not the Lord's Supper that you eat;	20 When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now to eat the Lord's supper.
21 for when the eating begins, each one of you has his own supper first, and there is one going hungrywhile another is getting drunk.	21 For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk.
22 Surely 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.	22 What, have you not 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.
23 For 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,	23 For 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.
24 and after he had given thanks, he broke it, and he said, 'This is my body, which is for you; do this inremembrance of me.'	24 And 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.
25 And 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.'	25 In 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.
26 Whenever you eat this bread, then, and drink this cup, you are proclaiming the Lord's death until hecomes.	26 For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come.
27 Therefore anyone who eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily is answerable for thebody and blood of the Lord.	27 Therefore 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.
28 Everyone is to examine himself and only then eat of the bread or drink from the cup;	28 But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice.
29 because a person who eats and drinks without recognising the body is eating and drinking his owncondemnation.	29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.
30 That is why many of you are weak and il and a good number have died.	30 Therefore are there many inform and weak among you, and many sleep.
31 If we were critical of ourselves we would not be condemned,	31 But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
32 but when we are judged by the Lord, we are corrected by the Lord to save us from being condemnedalong with the world.	32 But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.
33 So then, my brothers, when you meet for the Meal, wait for each other;	33 Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
34 anyone who is hungry should eat at home. Then your meeting wil not bring your condemnation. Theother matters I shal arrange when I come.	34 If 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.