Study Desk

Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered?

Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him,

but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.

For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,

for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.

For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,

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."

For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

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

if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come.

To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

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

that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.