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No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.

"Everything is permissible"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible"—but not everything is constructive.

Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others.

But if anyone says to you, "This has been offered in sacrifice," then do not eat it, both for the sake of the man who told you and for conscience' sake —

even as I try to please everybody in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.

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

For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;

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

For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.

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

But if we judged ourselves, we would not come under judgment.

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.

There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.

Now the body is not made up of one part but of many.

But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.

As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,

so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.