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For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am compelled to preach—and woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

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

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

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

These things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

I am speaking as to sensible people. Judge for yourselves what I am saying.

Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, without raising questions for the sake of conscience,

If any of the unbelievers invites you over and you want to go, eat everything that is set before you, without raising questions for the sake of conscience.

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?

If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I criticized because of something for which I give thanks?

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

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.

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

Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

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.

For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.