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But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News.

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

Now I do this for the Good News's sake, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, for fear that by any means, that after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Messiah.

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body; for we all partake of the one bread.

"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

for "the eretz is the Lord's, and its fullness."

But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the eretz is the Lord's, and all its fullness."

Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks?

Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Yehudim, or to Yevanim, or to the assembly of God;

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.