For if a woman will not wear a veil, let her cut off her hair too. But if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her wear a veil.

For a man ought not to wear anything on his head, for he is the image of God and reflects his glory; while woman is the reflection of man's glory.

For man was not made from woman, but woman from man,

and man was not created for woman, but woman was for man.

For just as woman was made from man, man is born of woman, and both like everything else really come from God.

Judge for yourselves. Is it proper for a woman to offer prayer to God with nothing on her head?

Does not nature itself teach you that for a man to wear his hair long is degrading,

but a woman's long hair is her pride? For her hair is given her as a covering.

But if anyone is disposed to be contentious about it, I for my part recognize no other practice in worship than this, and neither do the churches of God.

For, in the first place, when you meet as a congregation, I hear that you divide into sets, and in a measure I believe it.

for each of you hurries to get his own supper and eat it, and one goes hungry while another gets drunk.

Have you no houses to eat and drink in? Or do you mean to show your contempt for the church of God, and to humiliate those who have none? What can I say to you? Can I approve of you? Not in this matter certainly.

For I myself received from the Lord the account that I passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus the night he was betrayed took some bread

and gave thanks for it and then broke it in pieces, saying, "This is my body which takes your place. Do this in memory of me."

For until the Lord comes back, every time you eat this bread and drink from the cup, you proclaim his death.

For anyone who eats and drinks, eats and drinks a judgment upon himself if he does not recognize the body.

So, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

Each one is given his spiritual illumination for the common good.

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, form one body, so it is with Christ.

For we have all??ews or Greeks, slaves or free men??een baptized in one spirit to form one body, and we have all been saturated with one Spirit.

For the body does not consist of one part but of many.

that there is no clash in the body, but its parts all alike care for one another.

I will show you a far better way. If I can speak the languages of men and even of angels, but have no love, I am only a noisy gong or a clashing cymbal.

It will bear anything, believe anything, hope for anything, endure anything.

For our knowledge is imperfect and our preaching is imperfect.

For now we are looking at a dim reflection in a mirror, but then we shall see face to face. Now my knowledge is imperfect, but then I shall know as fully as God knows me.

For anyone who speaks ecstatically is speaking not to men but to God, for no one can understand him, though he is uttering secret truths.

If the bugle does not sound a clear call, who will prepare for battle?

So since you are ambitious for spiritual endowments, you must try to excel in them in ways that will do good to the church.

Therefore, the man who can speak ecstatically should pray for the power to explain what he says.

For if I pray ecstatically, it is my spirit that prays, but my mind is helping nobody.

For if you utter blessings in ecstatic speech, how is an ordinary man to say Amen to your thanksgiving? For he does not know what you are saying.

Then what is the right course, brothers? When you meet together, suppose every one of you has a song, a teaching, a revelation, an ecstatic utterance, or an explanation of one; it must all be for the good of all.

For in this way you can all preach one after another, as you are inspired to, so that everyone may be instructed and stimulated,

for the spirits of prophets will give way to prophets,

for God is not a God of disorder but of peace. This is the rule in all Christian churches.

Women are to keep quiet in church, for they are not allowed to speak. They must take a subordinate place, just as the Law says.

If they want to find out about anything, they should ask their husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

and through which you are to be saved, if you hold on, unless your faith has been all for nothing.

For I passed on to you, as of first importance, the account I had received, that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures foretold,

For I am the least important of the apostles, and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I once persecuted God's church.

But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me.

and we are found guilty of misrepresenting God, for we have testified that he raised Christ, when he did not do it, if it is true that the dead are never raised.

For if the dead are never raised, Christ was not raised;

For since it was through a man that we have death, it is through a man also that we have the raising of the dead.

For just as because of their relation to Adam all men die, so because of their relation to Christ they will all be brought to life again.

for he must retain the kingdom until he puts all his enemies under his feet.

for everything is to be reduced to subjection and put under Christ's feet. But when it says that everything is subject to him, he is evidently excepted who reduced it all to subjection to him.

From the human point of view, what good is it to me that I have fought wild animals here in Ephesus? If the dead do not rise at all, "Let us eat and drink, for we will be dead tomorrow!"

Return to your sober sense as you ought, and stop sinning, for some of you are utterly ignorant about God. To your shame I say so.

It is so with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in decay, it is raised free from decay.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised free from decay, and we shall be changed.

For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality.

About the collection for God's people, I want you to do as I told the churches of Galatia to do.

And if it seems worth while for me to go myself, they can go with me.

I will come to you after passing through Macedonia, for I am going through Macedonia,

and I will probably stay some time with you, or even pass the winter, so that you may start me off for wherever I may be going.

For I do not want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you if the Lord permits it.

for I have a great and promising opportunity here, as well as many opponents.

If Timothy reaches you, put him at his ease among you, for he is devoted to the Lord's work, just as I am.

So no one is to slight him. But see him off cordially when he comes back to me, for I am expecting him with the other brothers.

As for our brother Apollos, I have often urged him to visit you with the other brothers, and he is quite unwilling to come now, but he will come when he has a good opportunity.

And I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus have come here, for they have made up for your absence.

A curse upon anyone who has no love for the Lord. Lord, come quickly!