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But food will not commend us to God. For neither if we eat do we excel, nor if we do not eat are we lacking.

For if anyone sees you, the one having knowledge, sitting in an idol-temple, will not the weak one's conscience be lifted up so as to eat things sacrificed to idols?

And on your knowledge the weak brother will fall, he for whom Christ died.

If I am not an apostle to others, yet I am indeed to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

For it has been written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox treading out grain." Deut. 25:4 Is it that it matters to God as to oxen?

But I have not used one of these. And I do not write these things that it be so with me. For it is good to me rather to die than that anyone nullify my glorying.

For if I proclaim the gospel, no glory is to me; for necessity is laid on me, and it is woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a stewardship.

For being free of all, I enslaved myself to all, that I might gain the more.

And I do this for the gospel, that I might become a fellow partaker of it.

And all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual rock following, and that Rock was Christ.

Yet God was not pleased with most of them, "for they were scattered in the deserted place." Num. 14:16

But these things became examples for us, so that we may not be lusters after evil, even as those indeed lusted.

And all these things happened to those as examples, and it was written for our warning, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Because we, the many, are one bread, one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

for "the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it." Psa. 24:1

But if anyone tells you, This is slain in sacrifice to idols, do not eat, because of that one pointing it out, and the conscience; for "the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it." Psa. 24:1

But I say conscience, not that of himself, but that of the other. For why is my freedom judged by another's conscience?

But if I partake by grace, why am I evil spoken of because of that for which I give thanks?

And every woman praying or prophesying with the head unveiled dishonors her head, for it is the same as being shaved.