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Do not defraud one another, except perhaps by agreement, for a time, in order that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and then you should be together again, lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self control.

Therefore, I consider this to be good because of the impending distress, that it is good for a man to be thus.

But this knowledge is not in everyone. But some, being accustomed until now to the idol, eat this food as food sacrificed to idols, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.

For if someone should see you who has knowledge reclining for a meal in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, because it is weak, be strengthened so that he eats the food sacrificed to idols?

Or doubtless does he speak for our sake? For it is written for our sake, because the one who plows ought to plow in hope and the one who threshes ought to do so in hope of a share.

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share from the one bread.

For indeed a man ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

Because of this, the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, on account of the angels.

But a woman, if she wears long hair, it is her glory, because her hair is given for a covering.

But in giving this instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

Because of this, many are weak and sick among you, and quite a few have died.

If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body," not because of this is it not a part of the body.

And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body, not because of this is it not a part of the body.

For the one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, because no one understands, but by the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

For otherwise, if you praise in your spirit, how will the one who fills the place of the outsider say the "amen" at your thanksgiving, because he does not know what you are saying?

For I am the least of the apostles, not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

And also we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if after all, then, the dead are not raised.

So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Now I rejoice over the arrival of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because these make up for your absence,

And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you are sharers in the sufferings, so also you will be sharers in the comfort.