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For yf some man se ye which hast knowledge sit at meate in the ydoles teple shall not the conscience of hym which is weake be boldened to eate those thinges which are offered vnto ye ydole?

And so thorow thy knowledge shall ye weake brother perisshe for whom christ dyed.

Are not ye my worke in the lorde. Yf I be not an Apostle vnto other yet am I vnto you. For the seale of myne Apostleshippe are ye in the lorde.

For it ys written in the lawe of Moses. Thou shall not mosell the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne. Doth God take thought for oxen?

Ether sayth he it not all to gedder for oure sakes? For oure sakes no doute this is written: that he which eareth shuld eare in hope: and that he which thressheth in hope shuld be parttaker of his hope.

But I have vsed none of these thinges. Nether wrote I these thinges that it shuld be so done vnto me. For it were better for me to dye the yt eny man shnld take this reioysinge from me

In that I preache the gospell I have nothinge to reioyce of. For necessite is put vnto me. Wo is it vnto me yf I preache not the gospell.

For though I be fre from all men yet have I made my silfe servaunt vnto all men that I myght wynne the moo.

And this I do for the gospels sake that I might have my parte therof.

But in many of them had god no delite. For they were overthrowen in the wildernes.

All these thinges happened vnto them for ensamples and were written to put vs in remembraunce whom the endes of the worlde are come apon.

What soever is solde in the market that eate and axe no questions for conscience sake

For the erth is the lordis and all that therein is.

Yf eny of them which beleve not bid you to a feest and yf ye be disposed to goo what soever is seet before you: eate axinge no question for conscience sake.

But and yf eny man saye vnto you: this is dedicate vnto ydols eate not of it for his sake that shewed it and for hurtynge of conscience.

Conscience I saye not thyne: but the coscieuce of that other. For why shuld my liberte be iudged of another manes conscience:

For yf I take my parte with thakes: why am I evell spoken of for that thynge wherfore I geve thankes.

Every woman that prayeth or prophisieth bare hedded dishonesteth hyr heed. For it is even all one and the very same thinge even as though she were shaven.

If the woman be not covered lett her also be shoren. If it be shame for a woma to be shorne or shave let her cover her heed.

A man ought not to cover his heed for as moche as he is the image and glory of God. The woman is the glory of the man.