8. for a man is not of a woman, but a woman [is] of a man,
9. for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;
10. because of this the woman ought to have [a token of] authority upon the head, because of the messengers;
11. but neither [is] a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,
12. for as the woman [is] of the man, so also the man [is] through the woman, and the all things [are] of God.
13. In your own selves judge ye; is it seemly for a woman uncovered to pray to God?
14. doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?
15. and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her;
16. and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.
17. And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together;
18. for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe [it],
19. for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;
20. ye, then, coming together at the same place--it is not to eat the Lord's supper;
21. for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;
22. why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!
23. For I--I received from the Lord that which also I did deliver to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,