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As to the eating of the sacrifices of idols, therefore, we know that an idol is nothing in the world; and that there is no other God, but one.

yet to us, on our part, there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord, Jesus the Messiah, by whom are all things, and we also by him.

But food doth not bring us near to God; for if we eat, we do not abound; and if we eat not, we are not in want.

For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that thresheth. Hath God regard for oxen?

and to those who have not the law, I was as without the law, (although I am not without law to God, but under the law of the Messiah,) that I might gain them that are without the law.

But with a multitude of them, God was not pleased; for they fell in the wilderness.

No trial cometh on you, but what pertaineth to men: and God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tried beyond your ability, but will make an issue to your trial, that ye may be able to sustain it.

But that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. And I would not, that ye should be associates of demons.

If therefore ye eat, or if ye drink, or if ye do any thing, do all things for the glory of God.

Be ye without offence to the Jews, and to the Gentiles, and to the church of God:

And I would have you know, that the head of every man is the Messiah, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of the Messiah is God.

The man, indeed, ought not to cover his head, because he is the likeness and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

12 For as the woman [fn] from the man, so the man is by the woman; and every thing is from God.

Judge for yourselves, among yourselves; is it becoming, that a woman pray to God with her head uncovered?

But if any one is contentious about these things, we on our part have no such custom, nor hath the church of God.

What! have ye no houses in which ye can eat and drink? Or, despise ye the church of God, and shame them who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.

I therefore inform you, that there is no man, that speaketh by the Spirit of God, who saith that Jesus is accursed: neither can a man say that Jesus is the Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.

And there are diversities of energies; but God, who worketh all in all men, is one.

But now hath God placed every one of the members in the body, according to his pleasure.

For the honorable members in us, have no need of honor: for God hath tempered the body, and given more honor to the member which is inferior;