I Corinthians 11-12

I Corinthians 11

¹Be my imitators, even as *I* also am of Christ.

²Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.

³But 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.

⁴Every man praying or prophesying, having anything on his head, puts his head to shame.

⁵But 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.

⁶For 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.

⁷For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory.

⁸For man is not of woman, but woman of man.

⁹For also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.

¹⁰Therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head, on account of the angels.

¹¹However, neither is woman without man, nor man without woman, in the Lord.

¹²For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman, but all things of God.

¹³Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered?

¹⁴Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?

¹⁵But woman, if she have long hair, it is glory to her; for the long hair is given to her in lieu of a veil.

¹⁶But if any one think to be contentious, *we* have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God.

¹⁷But 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.

¹⁸For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit to it.

¹⁹For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you.

²⁰When ye come therefore together into one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

²¹For each one in eating takes his *own* supper before others, and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.

²²Have 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.

²³For *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,

²⁴and having given thanks broke it, and said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me.

²⁵In 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.

²⁶For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come.

²⁷So 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.

²⁸But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

²⁹For the eater and drinker eats and drinks judgment to himself, not distinguishing the body.

³⁰On this account many among you are weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep.

³¹But if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged.

³²But being judged, we are disciplined of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

³³So that, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another.

³⁴If 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.

I Corinthians 12

¹But concerning spiritual manifestations, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant.

²Ye know that when ye were of the nations ye were led away to dumb idols, in whatever way ye might be led.

³I give you therefore to know, that no one, speaking in the power of the Spirit of God, says, Curse on Jesus; and no one can say, Lord Jesus, unless in the power of the Holy Spirit.

⁴But there are distinctions of gifts, but the same Spirit;

⁵and there are distinctions of services, and the same Lord;

⁶and there are distinctions of operations, but the same God who operates all things in all.

⁷But to each the manifestation of the Spirit is given for profit.

⁸For to one, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

⁹and to a different one faith, in the power of the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healing in the power of the same Spirit;

¹⁰and to another operations of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; and to a different one kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues.

¹¹But all these things operates the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each in particular according as he pleases.

¹²For even as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

¹³For also in the power of one Spirit *we* have all been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or free, and have all been given to drink of one Spirit.

¹⁴For also the body is not one member but many.

¹⁵If the foot say, Because I am not a hand I am not of the body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?

¹⁶And if the ear say, Because I am not an eye I am not of the body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?

¹⁷If the whole body were an eye, where the hearing? if all hearing, where the smelling?

¹⁸But now God has set the members, each one of them in the body, according as it has pleased him.

¹⁹But if all were one member, where the body?

²⁰But now the members are many, and the body one.

²¹The eye cannot say to the hand, I have not need of thee; or again, the head to the feet, I have not need of you.

²²But much rather, the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;

²³and those parts of the body which we esteem to be the more void of honour, these we clothe with more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;

²⁴but our comely parts have not need. But God has tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to the part that lacked;

²⁵that there might be no division in the body, but that the members might have the same concern one for another.

²⁶And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; and if one member be glorified, all the members rejoice with it.

²⁷Now *ye* are Christ's body, and members in particular.

²⁸And God has set certain in the assembly: first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then miraculous powers; then gifts of healings; helps; governments; kinds of tongues.

²⁹Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all in possession of miraculous powers?

³⁰have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

³¹But desire earnestly the greater gifts, and yet shew I unto you a way of more surpassing excellence.