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No temptation has overtaken you that is unusual for human beings. But God is faithful, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. Instead, along with the temptation he will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to endure it.Psalm 125:3; Jeremiah 29:11; 1 Corinthians 1:9; 2 Peter 2:9;">[xr]

Everything is permissible, but not everything is helpful. Everything is permissible, but not everything builds up.1 Corinthians 6:12;">[xr]

No one should seek his own welfare, but rather his neighbor's.Romans 15:1-2; 1 Corinthians 13:5; 15:33; Philippians 2:4,21;">[xr]

just as I myself try to please everybody in every way, not looking for my own advantage but for that of many people, so that they might be saved.Romans 15:2; 1 Corinthians 9:19,22, 24;">[xr]

A man should not cover his own head, because he exists as God's image and glory. But the woman is man's glory.Genesis 1:26-27; 5:1; 9:6;">[xr]

For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;Genesis 2:21-22;">[xr]

and man was not created for woman, but woman for man.Genesis 2:18,21, 23;">[xr]

For as woman came from man, so man comes through woman. But everything comes from God.Romans 11:36;">[xr]

But if anyone wants to argue about this, we do not have any custom like this, nor do any of God's churches.1 Corinthians 7:17; 14:33; 1 Timothy 6:4;">[xr]

Now I am not praising you in giving you the following instructions. When you gather, it is not for the better but for the worse.

But if we judged ourselves correctly, we would not be judged.Psalm 32:5; 1 John 1:9;">[xr]

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the Spirit is the same;Romans 12:4; Ephesians 4:4; Hebrews 2:4; 1 Peter 4:10;">[xr]

and there are varieties of ministries, but the Lord is the same;Romans 12:6-8; Ephesians 4:11;">[xr]

and there are varieties of results, but God is the same, and it is he who produces all the results in everyone.Ephesians 1:23;">[xr]

But one and the same Spirit produces all these results and gives what he wants to each person.John 3:8; Romans 12:6; 1 Corinthians 7:7; 2 Corinthians 10:13; Ephesians 4:7; Hebrews 2:4;">[xr]

For the body does not consist of only one part, but of many.

But at this very time God has arranged the parts, every one of them, in the body just as he wanted to.Romans 12:3; 1 Corinthians 3:5,11; 12:28;">[xr]

So there are many parts, but one body.

However, our attractive parts don't need this. But God has put the body together and has given special honor to the parts that lack it,

so that there might be no disharmony in the body, but that its parts should have the same concern for each other.