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But food does not bring us close to God. For neither if we eat do we have more, nor if we do not eat do we lack.

But watch out lest somehow this right of yours becomes a cause for stumbling to the weak.

If others share this right over you, do we not do so even more? Yet we have not made use of this right, but we endure all things, in order that we may not cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

But I have not made use of any of these rights. And I am not writing these things in order that it may be thus with me. For it would be better to me rather to die than for anyone to deprive me of my reason for boasting.

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if I do so unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

To those outside the law I became as outside the law (although I am not outside the law of God, but subject to the law of Christ) in order that I may gain those outside the law.

Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all things. Thus those do so in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.

But I discipline my body and subjugate it, lest somehow after preaching to others, I myself should become disqualified.

But God was not pleased with the majority of them, for they were struck down in the desert.

Now these things happened to those people as an example, but are written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Temptation has not come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also make a way out together with the temptation, so that you may be able to endure it.

No, but that the things which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons.

All things are permitted, but not all things are profitable. All things are permitted, but not all things build up.

Let no one seek his own good but the good of the other.

But if someone says to you, "This is offered to idols," do not eat it, for the sake of that one who informed you and the conscience.

Now I am not speaking about your own conscience, but the conscience of the other person. For why is my freedom judged by another's conscience?

just as I also please all people in all things, not seeking my own benefit, but the benefit of the many, in order that they may be saved.

But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and the head of Christ is God.

but every woman who prays or prophesies with uncovered head dishonors her head, for she is one and the same with the one whose head is shaved.