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For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship.

For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.

I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.

Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.

Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.

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

For "the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof."

But if someone says to you, "This has been offered in sacrifice," then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience—

I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience?

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?

For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head.

For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.

For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.

Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.