13. Judge in yourselves: is it honest that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
14. Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man lets his hair grow, it is dishonest?
15. But if a woman lets her hair grow, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given her for a covering.
16. With all this, if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God.
17. Now in this that I declare unto you 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 congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
19. For it is expedient that there also be heresies among you, so that those who are proved may become manifest among you.
20. So that when ye come together in one place, this is not eating the Lord’s supper.
21. For in eating, each one takes his own supper first: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
22. What? Do ye not have houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God and shame those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
23. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread;
24. and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of me.
25. After the same manner also he took the cup, after he had eaten supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood; do this each time that ye drink, in remembrance of me.
26. For each time that ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye declare the Lord’s death until he comes.
27. Therefore whoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28. But let each man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.