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Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me: but all things are not expedient.

All things are lawful for me: but all things do not edify.

Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat: asking no question for conscience’ sake.

If any of them that believe not, invite you, and you be willing to go: eat of any thing that is set before you, asking no question for conscience’ sake.

But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols: do not eat of it, for his sake that told it and for conscience’ sake.

Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other’s. For why is my liberty judged by another man’s conscience?

If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven.

For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn. But if it be a shame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let her cover her head.

For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.

For the man was not created for the woman: but the woman for the man.

For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things of God.

But if a woman nourish her hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering.

Now this I ordain: not praising you, that you come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

For first of all I hear that when you come together in the church, there are schisms among you. And in part I believe it.

For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are approved may be made manifest among you.

For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk.

For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread,

And giving thanks, broke and said: Take ye and eat: This is my body, which shall be delivered for you. This do for the commemoration of me.

In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood. This do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me.