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But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the husband is the head of his wife, and God is the head of Christ.

For a man ought not to have his head veiled, since he is the image and reflection of God; but woman is the reflection of man.

For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman; but all things come from God.

Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head unveiled?

But if anyone is disposed to be contentious—we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

What! Do you not have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you show contempt for the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I commend you? In this matter I do not commend you!

Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says "Let Jesus be cursed!" and no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy Spirit.

and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone.

But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.

whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member,

And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues.

For those who speak in a tongue do not speak to other people but to God; for nobody understands them, since they are speaking mysteries in the Spirit.

I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you;

After the secrets of the unbeliever's heart are disclosed, that person will bow down before God and worship him, declaring, "God is really among you."

But if there is no one to interpret, let them be silent in church and speak to themselves and to God.

for God is a God not of disorder but of peace. (As in all the churches of the saints,

Or did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only ones it has reached?)

For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them—though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ—whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.