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meat does not recommend us to God: if we eat, we are not the better men; if we don't eat, we are not the worse.

to those who are without the law, as without that law, (not as being under no law to God, but as under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law.

but with the greater part God was not well pleased: for their carcasses were strown in the wilderness.

you have met with no trials yet, but such as are common to men: and God who is faithful, will not suffer you to be tempted above your strength; but will with the temptation make a way to escape, by enabling you to bear it.

no, but that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not have you partake of the sacrifices of demons.

whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God.

give no offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God.

but I would have you take notice, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the wife, is the man; and the head of Christ, is God.

A man ought not to be veil'd: he has the honour of being invested with authority from God, and may glory in his priority to the woman.

for as the woman was taken from the man, so man is born of the woman: and all are from God.

Be you yourselves judges: is it decent for a woman to pray to God without a veil?

but if any man has a mind to be contentious, I answer, we have no such custom, nor any of the churches of God.

what, have you no houses to eat and drink in? or have ye a contempt for the church of God, or is it to insult those who are in want? what shall I say to you? shall I commend such behaviour? I do not approve of it.

wherefore I give you to understand, that no man who has the spirit of God, can pronounce Jesus anathema: and that no man can acknowledge Jesus to be the Lord, but by the holy spirit.

and there are different operations, but it is the same God who performs them all in every one.

now God disposed every one of the members in the body as he thought fit.

of which the graceful have no need: but God has contrived the symmetry of the body, by bestowing an additional advantage where it seem'd to want it.

which God has placed in the church, first apostles, next prophets, then teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, assistants, governours, interpreters of languages.

for he that speaks in an unknown tongue, speaks not to men, but to God: for no man can understand the mysteries he delivers by the spirit.

I thank God, I speak more languages than you all: