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But if anyone loves God, he is known by him.

About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak.

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

To those who are without the law, like one without the law—though I am not without God’s law but under the law of Christ—to win those without the law.

Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way to win the prize.

Now everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable crown.

No temptation has come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful; he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation he will also provide a way out so that you may be able to bear it.

No, but I do say that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons!

“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything builds up.

No one is to seek his own good, but the good of the other person.

But if someone says to you, “This is food from a sacrifice,” do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience.

I do not mean your own conscience, but the other person’s. For why is my freedom judged by another person’s conscience?

just as I also try to please everyone in everything, not seeking my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.

But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ.

For if a woman doesn’t cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her head be covered.

For man did not come from woman, but woman came from man.

Neither was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for the sake of man.

but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her as a covering.

Now in giving this instruction I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse.