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but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her as a covering.

But if anyone wants to argue about this, we have no other custom, nor do the churches of God.

Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse.

but when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned with the world.

Now there are different gifts, but the same Spirit.

There are different ministries, but the same Lord.

And there are different activities, but the same God activates each gift in each person.

But one and the same Spirit is active in all these, distributing to each person as He wills.

So the body is not one part but many.

But now God has placed each one of the parts in one body just as He wanted.

But even more, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary.

But our presentable parts have no need of clothing. Instead, God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the less honorable,

so that there would be no division in the body, but that the members would have the same concern for each other.

But desire the greater gifts. And I will show you an even better way.

If I speak human or angelic languages but do not have love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth.

Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for languages, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

But when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end.