{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/1-corinthians/11","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T12:35:14.350Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"1 Corinthians","bookSlug":"1-corinthians","chapter":11,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":10,"nextChapter":12,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":34},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Be you followers of me, even as I also am of Christ."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, for as much as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray to God uncovered?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Now in this that I declare to you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"When you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For in eating every one takes before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"What? have you not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise you the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do you, as oft as you drink it, in remembrance of me."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till he come."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Why whoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Why, my brothers, when you come together to eat, tarry one for another."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that you come not together to condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 11 (AKJV)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 11](https://primebible.com/akjv/1-corinthians/11)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/1-corinthians/11 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}