American Standard Version

1 Corinthians 11:9-22 American Standard Version (ASV)

9. for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man:

10. for this cause ought the woman to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.

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

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

13. Judge ye in yourselves: is it seemly that a woman pray unto God unveiled?

14. Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

15. But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

16. But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

17. But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.

18. For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it.

19. For there must be also factions among you, that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.

20. When therefore ye assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord’s supper:

21. for in your eating each one taketh before other his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

22. What, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.