¹And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, ²and all to Moses were baptized in the cloud, and in the sea; ³and all the same spiritual food did eat, ⁴and all the same spiritual drink did drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ; ⁵but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness.

⁶And those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire. ⁷Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, ‘The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;’ ⁸neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand; ⁹neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish; ¹⁰neither murmur ye, as also some of them did murmur, and did perish by the destroyer. ¹¹And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come, ¹²so that he who is thinking to stand—let him observe, lest he fall. ¹³No temptation hath taken you—except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear it. ¹⁴Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry.

¹⁵As to wise men I speak—judge ye what I say: ¹⁶The cup of the blessing that we bless—is it not the fellowship of the blood of the Christ? the bread that we break—is it not the fellowship of the body of the Christ? ¹⁷because one bread, one body, are we the many—for we all of the one bread do partake. ¹⁸See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar? ¹⁹what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything?— ²⁰no, but that the things that the nations sacrifice—they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons. ²¹Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons; ²²do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

²³All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up; ²⁴let no one seek his own—but each another’s. ²⁵Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience, ²⁶for the Lord’s is the earth, and its fulness; ²⁷and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience; ²⁸and if any one may say to you, ‘This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,’—do not eat, because of that one who shewed it, and of the conscience, for the Lord’s is the earth and its fulness: ²⁹and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why is it that my liberty is judged by another’s conscience? ³⁰and if I thankfully do partake, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks? ³¹Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God; ³²become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God; ³³as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many—that they may be saved.

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¹Followers of me become ye, as I also am of Christ. ²And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep, ³and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God. ⁴Every man praying or prophesying, having the head covered, doth dishonour his head, ⁵and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, doth dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven, ⁶for if a woman is not covered—then let her be shorn, and if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven—let her be covered; ⁷for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man, ⁸for a man is not of a woman, but a woman is of a man, ⁹for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man; ¹⁰because of this the woman ought to have a token of authority upon the head, because of the messengers; ¹¹but neither is a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord, ¹²for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, and the all things are of God. ¹³In your own selves judge ye; is it seemly for a woman uncovered to pray to God? ¹⁴doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him? ¹⁵and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her; ¹⁶and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.

¹⁷And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together; ¹⁸for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe it, ¹⁹for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you; ²⁰ye, then, coming together at the same place—it is not to eat the Lord’s supper; ²¹for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk; ²²why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!

²³For I—I received from the Lord that which also I did deliver to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread, ²⁴and having given thanks, he brake, and said, ‘Take ye, eat ye, this is my body, that for you is being broken; this do ye—to the remembrance of me.’ ²⁵In like manner also the cup after the supping, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood; this do ye, as often as ye may drink it—to the remembrance of me;’ ²⁶for as often as ye may eat this bread, and this cup may drink, the death of the Lord ye do shew forth—till he may come; ²⁷so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord: ²⁸and let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink; ²⁹for he who is eating and drinking unworthily, judgment to himself he doth eat and drink—not discerning the body of the Lord. ³⁰Because of this, among you many are weak and sickly, and sleep do many; ³¹for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged, ³²and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned; ³³so then, my brethren, coming together to eat, for one another wait ye; ³⁴and if any one is hungry, at home let him eat, that to judgment ye may not come together; and the rest, whenever I may come, I shall arrange.

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