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

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

And euery man that proueth masteries, abstaineth fro all things: and they do it to obtaine a corruptible crowne: but we for an vncorruptible.

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

But with many of them God was not pleased: for they were ouerthrowen in ye wildernes.

Nowe all these things came vnto them for ensamples, and were written to admonish vs, vpon whome the endes of the world are come.

For we that are many, are one bread and one body, because we all are partakers of one bread.

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

Whatsoeuer is solde in the shambles, eate ye, and aske no question for conscience sake.

For the earth is the Lords, and all that therein is.

If any of them which beleeue not, call you to a feast, and if ye wil go, whatsoeuer is set before you, eate, asking no question for conscience sake.

But if any man say vnto you, This is sacrificed vnto idoles, eate it not, because of him that shewed it, and for the conscience (for the earth is the Lords, and all that therein is)

And the conscience, I say, not thine, but of that other: for why should my libertie be condemned of another mans conscience?

For if I through Gods benefite be partaker, why am I euill spoken of, for that wherefore I giue thankes?

But euery woman that prayeth or prophecieth bare headed, dishonoureth her head: for it is euen one very thing, as though she were shauen.

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

For a man ought not to couer his head: for as much as he is the image & glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.

For the man was not created for the womans sake: but the woman for the mans sake.

For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman: but all things are of God.