{"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/dbt/1-corinthians/11","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-02T19:42:40.491Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"1 Corinthians","bookSlug":"1-corinthians","chapter":11,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":10,"nextChapter":12,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":34},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Be my imitators, even as I also am of Christ."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head is the man, and the Christ's head God."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Every man praying or prophesying, having anything on his head, puts his head to shame."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved woman."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it be shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For man is not of woman, but woman of man."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head, on account of the angels."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"However, neither is woman without man, nor man without woman, in the Lord."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman, but all things of God."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But woman, if she have long hair, it is glory to her; for the long hair is given to her in lieu of a veil."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"But if any one think to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But in prescribing to you on this which I now enter on, I do not praise, namely, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit to it."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"When ye come therefore together into one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For each one in eating takes his own supper before others, and one is hungry and another drinks to excess."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this point I do not praise."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"and having given thanks broke it, and said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"So that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"For the eater and drinker eats and drinks judgment to himself, not distinguishing the body."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"On this account many among you are weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"But if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"But being judged, we are disciplined of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"So that, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"If any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for judgment. But the other things, whenever I come, I will set in order."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 11 (DBT)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 11](https://primebible.com/dbt/1-corinthians/11)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/1-corinthians/11 (accessed 2026-06-02)."}}