1 Corinthians 11
Lutheran reading notes
In 1 Corinthians chapter 11, the message of the gospel develops the theme of instruction for church life and unity in Christ. Lutheran interpretation frequently emphasizes the proclamation of Christ, the distinction between law and gospel, and the promise of justification through faith.
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Be ye followers of me, even as I also {am} of Christ.
1 Corinthians 11:1 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
2
Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered {them} to you. {ordinances: or, traditions}
1 Corinthians 11:2 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
3
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman {is} the man; and the head of Christ {is} God.
1 Corinthians 11:3 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Every man praying or prophesying, having {his} head covered, dishonoureth his head.
1 Corinthians 11:4 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with {her} head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
1 Corinthians 11:5 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
1 Corinthians 11:6 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For a man indeed ought not to cover {his} head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
1 Corinthians 11:7 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
1 Corinthians 11:8 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
1 Corinthians 11:9 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For this cause ought the woman to have power on {her} head because of the angels. {power: that is a covering in sign that she is under the power of her husband}
1 Corinthians 11:10 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:11 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For as the woman {is} of the man, even so {is} the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
1 Corinthians 11:12 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
1 Corinthians 11:13 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
1 Corinthians 11:14 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for {her} hair is given her for a covering. {covering: or, veil}
1 Corinthians 11:15 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
1 Corinthians 11:16 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now in this that I declare {unto you} I praise {you} not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
1 Corinthians 11:17 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. {divisions: or, schisms}
1 Corinthians 11:18 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. {heresies: or, sects}
1 Corinthians 11:19 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When ye come together therefore into one place, {this} is not to eat the Lord's supper. {this...: or, ye cannot eat}
1 Corinthians 11:20 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For in eating every one taketh before {other} his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
1 Corinthians 11:21 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise {you} not. {have not: or, are poor?}
1 Corinthians 11:22 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the {same} night in which he was betrayed took bread:
1 Corinthians 11:23 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And when he had given thanks, he brake {it}, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. {in...: or, for a remembrance}
1 Corinthians 11:24 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
25
After the same manner also {he took} the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink {it}, in remembrance of me.
1 Corinthians 11:25 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. {ye do...: or, shew ye}
1 Corinthians 11:26 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink {this} cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:27 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of {that} bread, and drink of {that} cup.
1 Corinthians 11:28 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. {damnation: or, judgment}
1 Corinthians 11:29 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
30
For this cause many {are} weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
1 Corinthians 11:30 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
31
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
1 Corinthians 11:31 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
32
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
1 Corinthians 11:32 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
33
Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
1 Corinthians 11:33 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
34
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come. {condemnation: or, judgment}
1 Corinthians 11:34 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.