Roles in Worship

1Be ye imitators of me, as I also of Christ.

2And I approve you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and as I have delivered to you, do ye hold the traditions. 3And I will you to know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman the man; and the head of Christ God. 4Every man praying or prophesying, having on the head, shames his head. 5And every woman praying or prophesying with head uncovered shames her head: for it is one and the same to her having been shaved. 6For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: and if shameful to the woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. 7For truly the man ought not to have the head covered, being the image and glory of God: and the woman is the glory of the man. 8For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. 9For also the man was not created through the woman; but the woman through the man. 10Therefore the woman ought to have power upon the head for the angels. 11But neither the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord. 12For as the woman by the man, so also the man by the woman; and all things of God. 13Judge in yourselves: is it suitable for a woman to pray to God uncovered? 14Does not nature itself teach you, that, if a man truly have long hair, it is a dishonour to him? 15And if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for the hair has been given her for a cloak. 16And if any one seem to be loving strife, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

Sharing in the Lord’s Supper
(Matthew 26:20–30; Mark 14:17–26; Luke 22:14–23)

17And this announcing I approve not, that not for the better come ye together, but for the worse. 18For truly first, ye coming together in the church, I hear divisions to be among you; and some part I believe. 19For there must be also sects among you, that the tried might be made manifest among you. 20Therefore ye coming together upon the same, it is not to eat the Lord's supper. 21For each takes his own supper in eating: and one is truly hungry, and one is intoxicated. 22For, have ye not houses for eating and drinking? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them not having? What should I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise not.

23For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus, in the night which he was delivered up, took bread: 24And having given thanks, he brake, and said, Take ye, eat; this is my body, broken for you: this do ye for my remembrance. 25Likewise the cup also, after supping, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do ye, as often as ye drink, for my remembrance. 26For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye announce the Lord's death till he come.

27Therefore whoever should eat this bread, and drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be liable to the penalty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28And let a man try himself, and so eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. 29For he eating and drinking unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 30For this many among you weak and sick, and enough are asleep. 31For if we examined ourselves, we should not be judged. 32And being judged, we are corrected of the Lord, lest we be condemned with the world.

33Therefore, my brethren, coming together to eat, succeed one another. 34And if any hunger, let him eat in the house; lest ye come together for judgment. And the rest when I come I will regulate.