Starting with this chapter, St. Paul changes subjects. He has been dealing with social issues, including divisions in the church, sexual immorality, and eating food that had been dedicated to idols. Now he shifts to questions regarding worship. In this chapter, the apostle deals with certain spiritual church regulations. He specifically discusses 1) head covering for women during prayer: and 2) believer’s behavior and attitude in the church due to the divisions that existed in the church at that time, which impacted them when they came to together to celebrate communion (vv17-34)