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But *I* have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.

For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings.

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.

For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most [possible].

And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.

But every one that contends [for a prize] is temperate in all things: *they* then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but *we* an incorruptible.

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed [them]: (now the rock was the Christ;)

yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.

Now all these things happened to them [as] types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

Because we, [being] many, are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of that one loaf.

Everything sold in the shambles eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.

For the earth [is] the Lord's and its fulness.

But if any one of the unbelievers invite you, and ye are minded to go, all that is set before you eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.

But if any one say to you, This is offered to holy purposes, do not eat, for his sake that pointed it out, and conscience sake;

but conscience, I mean, not thine own, but that of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

If *I* partake with thanksgiving, why am I spoken evil of for what *I* give thanks for?

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved [woman].

For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if [it be] shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered.

For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory.