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Or saith hee it altogether for our sakes? for our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that hee that ploweth, should plow in hope: and that hee that thresheth in hope, should bee partaker of his hope.

But I haue vsed none of these things. Neither haue I written these things, that it should bee so done vnto me: for it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my glorying voyd.

For though I preach the Gospel, I haue nothing to glorie of: for necessitie is laid vpon mee, yea, woe is vnto me, if I preach not the Gospel.

For if I doe this thing willingly, I haue a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the Gospel is committed vnto me.

For though I bee free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruant vnto all, that I might gaine the more.

And this I doe for the Gospels sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

And euery man that striueth for the masterie, is temperate in all things: Now they doe it to obtaine a corruptible crowne, but we an incorruptible.

And did all drinke the same spirituall drinke: (for they dranke of that spirituall Rocke that followed them: and that Rocke was Christ)

But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were ouerthrowen in the wildernesse.

Now all these things happened vnto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, vpon whom the ends of the world are come.

For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

All things are lawfull for me, but all things are not expedient: All things are lawfull for mee, but all things edifie not.

Whatsoeuer is solde in the shambles, that eate, asking no question for conscience sake.

For the earth is the Lords, and the fulnesse thereof.

If any of them that beleeue not, bid you to a feast, and yee be disposed to goe, whatsoeuer is set before you, eate, asking no question for conscience sake.

But if any man say vnto you, This is offered in sacrifice vnto idoles, eate not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake. The earth is the Lords, and the fulnesse thereof.

Conscience I say, not thine owne, but of the others: for why is my libertie iudged of another mans conscience?

For, if I by grace be a partaker, why am I euill spoken of, for that for which I giue thankes?

But euery woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head vncouered, dishonoureth her head: for that is euen all one as if she were shauen.

For if the woman be not couered, let her also bee shorne: but if it bee a shame for a woman to be shorne or shauen, let her be couered.