{"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/ylt/1-corinthians/11","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-02T19:46:55.963Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"1 Corinthians","bookSlug":"1-corinthians","chapter":11,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":10,"nextChapter":12,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":34},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Followers of me become ye, as I also am of Christ."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"and 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."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Every man praying or prophesying, having the head covered, doth dishonour his head,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"and 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,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"for 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;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"for 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,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"for a man is not of a woman, but a woman is of a man,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"because of this the woman ought to have a token of authority upon the head, because of the messengers;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"but neither is a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, and the all things are of God."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"In your own selves judge ye; is it seemly for a woman uncovered to pray to God?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"and 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;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe it,"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"ye, then, coming together at the same place — it is not to eat the Lord's supper;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"why, 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!"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For 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,"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"and 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.'"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"In 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;'"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"for 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;"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"so 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:"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"and let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink;"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"for he who is eating and drinking unworthily, judgment to himself he doth eat and drink — not discerning the body of the Lord."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Because of this, among you many are weak and sickly, and sleep do many;"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;"},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"so then, my brethren, coming together to eat, for one another wait ye;"},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"and 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."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 11 (YLT)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 11](https://primebible.com/ylt/1-corinthians/11)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/1-corinthians/11 (accessed 2026-06-02)."}}