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For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation [of the gospel] is committed to me.

For though I am free from all [men], yet I have made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more.

And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partaker of it with [you].

And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

And all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.)

But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now all these things happened to them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

For we [being] many are one bread, [and] one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

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

Whatever is sold in the provision market, [that] eat, asking no question for conscience' sake:

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

But if any man shall say to you, This is offered in sacrifice to idols, eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience' sake: for the earth [is] the Lord's, and its fullness:

Conscience, I say, not thy own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another [man's] conscience?

For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with [her] head uncovered, dishonoreth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaved.

For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

For a man indeed ought not to cover [his] head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

For the man is not from the woman, but the woman from the man.

Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

For this cause ought the woman to have power on [her] head, because of the angels.