MODERN LITERAL VERSION

11:1 Become imitators of me, just-as I also am of Christ.

11:2 Now I praise you* brethren that you* have remembered me in all things and are holding-onto the traditions, just-as I gave them to you*.
11:3 But I wish you* to 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.
11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having something on his head, shames his head.
11:5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled shames her head; for* it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.
11:6 For* if a woman is not veiled, let her hair also be sheared, but if it is shameful to a woman to be sheared or shaved, let her be veiled.
11:7 For* a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, being* that he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.
11:8 For* the man is not from the woman, but the woman is from the man;
11:9 for* neither was the man created because of the woman, but the woman because of the man.
11:10 Because of this, the woman ought to have a sign of authority upon her head, because of the messengers.
11:11 However, neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.
11:12 For* like the woman is from the man, so the man is also through the woman, but all things are from God.
11:13 Judge you* among yourselves. Is it suitable that a woman pray to God unveiled?
11:14 Or does not even nature itself teach you*, that, if a man indeed has long-hair, it is a dishonor to him?
11:15 But if a woman has long-hair, it is a glory to her, because her hair is given to her instead of a head dressing.
11:16 But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the congregations* of God.

11:17 But in commanding this, I am not praising you*, because you* are not coming together *for the best but *for the worst.
11:18 For* indeed, first of all, when you* come together in the congregation*, I am hearing that splits exist in you*, and I believe some part of it.
11:19 For* there must also be sects among you*, that* those who are approved ones may become apparent among you*.
11:20 Therefore when you* come together, it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper;
11:21 for* in your* eating each one is taking his own supper before others can, and one is hungry and another is drunken.
11:22 For* do you* not have houses in which to eat and drink in? Or do you* despise the {F} congregation* of God and are shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you*? Should I praise you*? I should not praise you * in this.
{Mk 14:22-25 & Mt 26:26-29 & Lk 22:19-20, 1Cor: 11:23-26.}

11:23 For* I received from the Lord what I also gave to you*, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was given up took bread;
11:24 and when he had given-thanks, he broke it and said, Take, eat. This is my body, which is being broken on your* behalf. Practice this in my remembrance.
11:25 Likewise* also the cup, after the supper, saying, This cup is the {F} new covenant* in my blood. Practice this in my remembrance whenever you* drink it.
11:26 For* whenever you* eat this bread and drink this cup, you* are proclaiming the Lord's death till whenever he comes.

11:27 So-then whoever eats this bread or drinks the cup of the Lord, unworthily of the Lord, will be liable to the body and of the blood of the Lord.
11:28 But let a man test himself and so let him eat from the bread and let him drink out of the cup.
11:29 For* he who unworthily eats and drinks, is eating and drinking judgment to himself, if he does not discern the body of the Lord.

11:30 Because of this, many among you* are weak and sick and a considerable number fall-asleep.
11:31 For* if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged.
11:32 But being judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that* we may not be condemned with the world.
11:33 So-then my brethren, when you* come together to eat, wait for one another.
11:34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat in his own house; that* you* may not come together *for judgment. Now the rest I will set in order whenever I come.
{Footnotes: 1Co 11:22 Or: church/the one true church, Eph 4:1-6; discussed more in the Appendix. 1Co 11:25 See Appendix under Covenant.}