¹Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

¹Ivai vateveri vangu, seniwo ndiri waKristu.

²Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

²Zvino ndinokurumbidzai hama, kuti munondirangarira pazvinhu zvose, muchichengetedza zvimiso, sezvandakakumikidza kwamuri.

³But 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.

³Asi ndinoda kuti muzive kuti musoro wemurume umwe neumwe ndiKristu; uye musoro womukadzi murume; uye musoro waKristu ndiMwari.

⁴Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.

⁴Murume umwe neumwe unonyengetera kana kuporofita ane musoro wakafukidzwa unozvidza musoro wake.

⁵But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

⁵Asi mukadzi umwe neumwe unonyengetera kana kuporofita nemusoro usina kufukidzwa, unozvidza musoro wake; nekuti ndizvo zvimwe nokuveurwa.

⁶For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

⁶Nekuti kana mukadzi asingafukidzwi ngaagerwewo; asi kana chiri chinyadzo kuti mukadzi agerwe kana kuveurwa, ngaafukidzwe.

⁷For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

⁷Nekuti murume zvirokwazvo haafaniri kufukidza musoro, sezvaari mufananidzo nekubwinya kwaMwari; asi mukadzi kubwinya kwemurume.

⁸For man is not from woman, but woman from man;

⁸Nekuti murume haabvi kumukadzi; asi mukadzi unobva kumurume;

⁹for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.

⁹kana murume haana kusikirwa mukadzi, asi mukadzi murume;

¹⁰For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.

¹⁰nekuda kweizvozvi mukadzi unofanira kuva nesimba pamusoro wake, nekuda kwevatumwa.

¹¹Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

¹¹Kunyange zvakadaro murume haazi kunze kwemukadzi nemukadzi haazi kunze kwemurume muna Ishe.

¹²For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

¹²Nekuti mukadzi sezvaanobva kumurume, saizvozvo murumewo unobva kumukadzi, asi zvinhu zvose zvinobva kuna Mwari.

¹³Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?

¹³Zvienzanisei imwi, zvakafanira here kuti mukadzi anyengetere kuna Mwari asina kufukidzwa?

¹⁴Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

¹⁴Kunyange chisikigo pachacho hachikudzidzisii here, kuti kana murume ane vhudzi refu, chinyadzo kwaari?

¹⁵But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.

¹⁵Asi kana mukadzi ane vhudzi refu, rukudzo kwaari; nekuti vhudzi rakapiwa kwaari chive chifukidzo.

¹⁶But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.

¹⁶Zvino kana mumwe achiratidza kuva negakava, isu hatina tsika yakadaro, kunyange kereke dzaMwari.

¹⁷But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

¹⁷Zvino mukuraira uku handirumbidzi, nekuti munounganira kwete zvakapfuura kunaka, asi zvakaipisisa.

¹⁸For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

¹⁸Nekuti chekutanga kana muchiungana mukereke, ndinonzwa kuti kupatsanurana kuripo pakati penyu; pamwe ndinozvitenda.

¹⁹For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

¹⁹Nekuti kupatsanuka kunofanira kuva pakati penyu, kuti avo vakatendeka vaonekwe pakati penyu.

²⁰When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.

²⁰Naizvozvo kana muchiungana panzvimbo imwe, uku hakusi kudya chirayiro chaIshe;

²¹For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

²¹Nekuti pakudya umwe neumwe unotanga kutora chirayiro chake; uye umwe une nzara, uye umwe wakadhakwa.

²²What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly, and put them to shame who don’t have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

²²Ko hamuna dzimba dzekudyira nekumwira here? Kana munozvidza kereke yaMwari, muchinyadzisa avo vasina chinhu? Ndichatii kwamuri? Ndingakurumbidzai here pane izvi? Handingakurumbidziyi.

²³For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.

²³Nekuti ini ndakagamuchira kuna Ishe ichowo chandakagamuchidza kwamuri, kuti Ishe Jesu neusiku hwaakatengeswa wakatora chingwa,

²⁴When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”

²⁴zvino wakati avonga akamedura, akati: Torai, idyai, ichi muviri wangu unomedurirwa imwi; izvi itai muchindirangarira.

²⁵In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”

²⁵Nenzira imwecheteyo mukombewo, shure kwekurayira, achiti: Mukombe uyu isungano itsva muropa rangu; izvi itai, nguva dzose kana muchimwa mukundirangarira.

²⁶For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

²⁶Nekuti nguva dzose kana muchidya chingwa ichi nekumwa mukombe uyu, munoparidza rufu rwaIshe kusvikira asvika.

²⁷Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

²⁷Naizvozvo ani nani unodya chingwa ichi, kana kumwa mukombe waIshe zvisakafanira, uchava nemhosva yemuviri neropa raIshe.

²⁸But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

²⁸Zvino munhu ngaazviongorore, saizvozvo ngaadye zvechingwa nekumwa zvemukombe.

²⁹For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body.

²⁹Nekuti unodya nokumwa zvisakafanira, unozvidyira nekuzvimwira kutongwa zvaasingatsauri muviri waIshe.

³⁰For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

³⁰Nemhaka iyi vazhinji pakati penyu indonda nevarwere, nevazhinji varere.

³¹For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.

³¹Nekuti dai taizvinzvera tomene, hatizaitongwa.

³²But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

³²Zvino kana tichitongwa, tinorangwa naIshe, kuti tirege kunzi tine mhosva pamwe nenyika.

³³Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

³³Naizvozvo, hama dzangu, kana muchiungana kuti mudye, miriranai.

³⁴But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

³⁴Uye kana umwe ane nzara, ngaadye kumba; kuti murege kuunganira kunzi mune mhosva. Zvasara ndichazvigadzira kana ndichisvika.