1 Corinthians 11:14-14:40 Does not even nature herself teach, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

Worrell⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ Does not even nature herself teach, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him? ¹⁵ But, if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering. ¹⁶ But, if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God. ¹⁷ But, in giving this charge, I praise you not; because, not for the better, but for the worse, do ye come together. ¹⁸ For, first, when ye come together in an assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it; ¹⁹ for there must also be factions among you, that the approved may be made manifest among you. ²⁰ When, therefore, ye assemble yourselves together, it is not to eat a Supper of the Lord; ²¹ for, in your eating, each one takes his own supper before others; and one is hungry, and another is drunken! ²² What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the assembly of God, and put to shame those who have them not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I praise you not. ²³ For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus, in the same night in which He was being betrayed, took bread; ²⁴ and, having given thanks, He broke it, and said, "This is My body which is for you; this do in remembrance of Me." ²⁵ In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying "This cup is the New Covenant in My blood; this do, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of Me:" ²⁶ for, as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death, till He come. ²⁷ Therefore, whosoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body, and blood of the Lord. ²⁸ But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup; ²⁹ for he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the body. ³⁰ For this cause, many among you are weak and sick, and not a few sleep. ³¹ But, if we discerned ourselves, we would not be judged; ³² but, being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. ³³ Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait one for another. ³⁴ If any one is hungry, let him eat at home, that ye come not together unto judgment. And the rest I will set in order, when I come. ¹² ¹ Now concerning the spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant. ² Ye know that ye were gentiles, carried away to the dumb idols, as ye were led. ³ Wherefore, I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God, says, "Jesus is accursed"; and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except in the Holy Spirit. ⁴ Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. ⁵ And there are diversities of ministries, and the same Lord. ⁶ And there are diversities of workings, but the same God, Who worketh all things in all. ⁷ And to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for profiting. ⁸ For to one, indeed, is given through the Spirit a word of wisdom; and to another, a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; ⁹ to another, faith, in the same Spirit; and to another, gifts of healings, in the one Spirit; ¹⁰ and to another, workings of mighty deeds; and to another, prophecy; and to another, discerning of spirits; to another, various kinds of tongues; and to another, interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ But all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, distributing to each one, severally, even as He willeth. ¹² For, as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is the Christ; ¹³ for, indeed, in one Spirit were we all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit. ¹⁴ For the body also is not one member, but many. ¹⁵ If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body"; it is not, therefore, not of the body. ¹⁶ And, if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body"; it is not, therefore, not of the body. ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole body were hearing, where were the smelling? ¹⁸ But, as it is, God did set the members, each one of them in the body, even as He willed. ¹⁹ And, if they were all one member, where were the body? ²⁰ But now they are many members, but one body. ²¹ And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." ²² But much more the members of the body which seem to be more feeble, are necessary; ²³ and those members which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness; ²⁴ but our comely parts have no need. But God attempered the body, giving the more abundant honor to that which lacked; ²⁵ that there might be no schism in the body, but that the members might have the same care, one for another. ²⁶ And whether one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or one is honored, all the members rejoice with it. ²⁷ Now ye are Christ's body, and severally members thereof. ²⁸ And God, indeed, set some in the assembly: first, apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; after that, miracles; then, gifts of healings, helps, governments, various kinds of tongues. ²⁹ Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles? ³⁰ Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? ³¹ But desire earnestly the greater gifts; and a still more excellent way I show you. ¹³ ¹ If I speak with tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. ² And, if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all the mysteries and all knowledge; and, if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing, ³ And, if I bestow in morsels all my goods; and, if I give my body to he burned, but have not love, I am profited nothing. ⁴ Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not herself, is not puffed up, ⁵ behaves not unseemly, seeks not her own, is not provoked, takes no account of evil, ⁶ rejoices not at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails; but whether there be prophecies, they will be done away; whether there be tongues, they will cease; whether there be knowledge, it will be done away. ⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; ¹⁰ but, when the complete comes, the partial will be done away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I was wont to talk as a child, to think as a child, to reason as a child; since I have become a man, I have done away with the things of the child; ¹² for now we see through a mirror, obscurely; but then, face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall fully know, even as I also was fully known. ¹³ But now abides faith, hope, love; these three; and the greatest of these is love. ¹⁴ ¹ Pursue love; and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. ² For he that speaks in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the spirit he speaks mysteries. ³ But he that prophesies speaks to men to edification and exhortation and comfort. ⁴ He that speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies the assembly. ⁵ Now I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy; and greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interpret, that the assembly may receive edifying. ⁶ And now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you, either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching? ⁷ Even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, if they give no distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? ⁸ For even if a trumpet give an uncertain sound, who will prepare for war? ⁹ So also ye, unless through the tongue ye give intelligible speech, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air! ¹⁰ There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no one of them is without signification. ¹¹ If, then, I know not the meaning of the voice, I will be to him who is speaking a barbarian; and he that is speaking, a barbarian to me. ¹² So also ye, since ye are eager for spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound in them with a view to the edification of the assembly. ¹³ Wherefore, let him that speaks in a tongue, pray that he may interpret. ¹⁴ For, if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. ¹⁵ What is it, then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also; I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. ¹⁶ Else, if you are blessing with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, since he knows not what you say? ¹⁷ For you, verily, give thanks well, but the other is not edified. ¹⁸ I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all; ¹⁹ but in an assembly I prefer to speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue. ²⁰ Brethren, do not be children in mind; yet in evil be babes, but in mind be full-grown. ²¹ In the law it has been written, "With other tongues, and with lips of others, I will speak to this people; and not even thus will they listen to Me," saith the Lord. ²² Therefore, the tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophecy is a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe. ²³ If, therefore, the whole assembly comes together, and all are speaking with tongues, and there come in those who are unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad? ²⁴ But, if all prophesy, and there come in one who is unbelieving or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all: ²⁵ the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, reporting that, in reality, God is among you. ²⁶ What is it, then, brethren? When ye come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edification. ²⁷ If any one speaks in a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and in turn; and let one interpret; ²⁸ but, if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God. ²⁹ And let the prophets, two or three, speak, and the others judge. ³⁰ But, if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let the first keep silence; ³¹ for ye all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all be exhorted. ³² And spirits of prophets are subject to prophets; ³³ for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints. ³⁴ Let the wives keep silence in the assemblies; for it is not permitted them to speak, but let them be in subjection, as also says the law. ³⁵ And, if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is a shame for a wife to speak in an assembly. ³⁶ Or from you did the word of God go forth? Or did it come to you alone? ³⁷ If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you, that they are the Lord's commandment; ³⁸ but, if any is ignorant, let him be ignorant. ³⁹ So then, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. ⁴⁰ But let all things be done decently and in order.