Roles in Worship 1 UDB Follow my example, just as I follow the example of Christ. BSB BSB: You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
2 UDB I praise you because you remember me in all you do, and you hold tight to all the important teachings that I have passed down to you, and you have kept them just as I taught them to you. BSB BSB: Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you.
3 UDB I want you to understand that Christ has authority over every man, and that a man has authority over a woman, and that God has authority over Christ. BSB BSB: But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
4 UDB So if any man covers his head when he prays or when he proclaims a message from God, he brings disgrace on himself. BSB BSB: Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.
6 UDB If a woman refuses to cover her head, then she should cut her hair short, like a man's. But you know that it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut short or to have her head shaved. So, instead, she should cover her head. BSB BSB: If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. And if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.
7 UDB A man should not cover his head, because God made him like himself, and the man reflects some of what God himself is like. But women reflect some of what men are like. BSB BSB: A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
8 UDB For God did not make the man Adam from the woman Eve; instead, he made the woman Eve from the man Adam. BSB BSB: For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.
9 UDB God did not create the man to help the woman; instead, he created the woman to help the man. BSB BSB: Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
10 UDB This is why women should cover their heads, as a sign of authority, and because of the angels. BSB BSB: For this reason a woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.
11 UDB So as we live joined to the Lord, women need men to help them, and men need women to help them. BSB BSB: In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
12 UDB This is because the woman was made from the man, and the man is born from the woman. They are dependent on one another. But all things come from God. BSB BSB: For just as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.
13 UDB Judge this for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God without a cover on her head? BSB BSB: Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
14 UDB Nature itself teaches us that it is a disgrace for a man to have long hair, BSB BSB: Doesn’t nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,
15 UDB but nature also teaches that long hair for a woman is a display of her beauty. Her hair is given to her by God as a covering. BSB BSB: but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.
16 UDB But if anyone in the church wishes to argue about this matter, we do not have any other custom than this, nor do any of the churches do anything different. BSB BSB: If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.
Sharing in the Lord’s Supper (Matthew 26:20–30; Mark 14:17–26; Luke 22:14–23)
17 UDB In these instructions, I cannot praise you for what you are doing about the Lord's supper. When you come together to eat, instead of encouraging and helping one another, you make the fellowship in the church much worse. BSB BSB: In the following instructions I have no praise to offer, because your gatherings do more harm than good.
18 UDB The first matter of concern is that when you come together, you come with different groups and factions. This is what people have told me, and I believe that some of what they say is true. BSB BSB: First of all, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
19 UDB It appears that you need to have different groups among yourselves so that you can test and approve the ones that have places of honor, and others that do not. BSB BSB: And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.
20 UDB When you come together, you are not eating the Lord's supper. BSB BSB: Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat.
21 UDB When you eat, one person brings an entire meal and eats it as soon as he arrives; he does not wait for anyone else. Another person goes hungry, while other people drink so much wine that they get drunk. BSB BSB: For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.
22 UDB You act as though you did not have houses to eat and drink in! You treat the church with dishonor, and you despise the purpose for which you gather. You humiliate those who are poor. I can say nothing good about this. This is a disgrace. BSB BSB: Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!
23 UDB For I have passed on to you what I received from the Lord, that on the night when the Lord Jesus was handed over to his enemies, he took bread, BSB BSB: For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread,
24 UDB and after he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this and remember me." BSB BSB: and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
25 UDB In the same way, after they had eaten, he took the cup and he said, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, and as often as you drink it, remember me." BSB BSB: In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
26 UDB For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes again. BSB BSB: For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
27 UDB All who come to participate in the Lord's supper should come to honor God in the way it is shared. Those who eat the bread and drink from the cup must do so in a manner that honors the Lord. Anyone who dishonors what the bread and the cup represent will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. BSB BSB: Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.
28 UDB Therefore we should all examine ourselves before we participate in the Lord's supper. We should only eat the bread and drink from the cup after we have examined ourselves. BSB BSB: Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.
29 UDB God will judge anyone who eats and drinks this supper and does not consider what the Lord's body is. BSB BSB: For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
30 UDB This is why many among you are physically ill, and some have even died, because of the way you have dishonored the Lord's body. BSB BSB: That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
31 UDB If we examine ourselves before we take the communion, God will not judge us. BSB BSB: Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.
32 UDB But when the Lord judges and punishes us, he disciplines us to correct us, so that he will not condemn us along with the world that has rebelled against God. BSB BSB: But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
33 UDB My fellow believers, when you come together for the Lord's supper, wait for one another. BSB BSB: So, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
34 UDB If one of you is hungry, eat at home—so that when you come together as the church, it will not be an occasion for God to discipline you. And when I come to you, I will give you instructions concerning the other matters you wrote me about. BSB BSB: If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you come together it will not result in judgment. And when I come, I will give instructions about the remaining matters.
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