Part 9

010:016 The cup of blessing, which we bless, does it not mean a joint-participation in the blood of Christ? The loaf of bread which we break, does it not mean a joint-participation in the body of Christ?

010:017 Since there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; we, all of us, share in that one loaf.

010:018 Look at the Israelites--the nation and their ritual. Are not those who eat the sacrifices joint-partakers in the altar?

010:019 Do I mean that a thing sacrificed to an idol is what it claims to be, or that an idol is a real thing?

010:020 No, but that which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, not to God; and I would not have you have fellowship with one another through the demons.

010:021 You cannot drink the Lord's cup and the cup of demons: you cannot be joint-partakers both in the table of the Lord and in the table of demons.

010:022 Or are we actually arousing the Lord to jealousy. Are we stronger than He is?

010:023 Everything is allowable, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable, but everything does not build others up.

010:024 Let no one be for ever seeking his own good, but let each seek that of his fellow man.

010:025 Anything that is for sale in the meat market, eat, and ask no questions for conscience' sake;

010:026 for the earth is the Lord's, and all that it contains.

010:027 If an unbeliever gives you an invitation and you are disposed to accept it, eat whatever is put before you, and ask no questions for conscience' sake.

010:028 But if any one tells you, "This food has been offered in sacrifice;" abstain from eating it--out of respect for him who warned you, and, as before, for conscience' sake.

010:029 But now I mean his conscience, not your own. "Why, on what ground," you may object, "is the question of my liberty of action to be decided by a conscience not my own?

010:030 If, so far as I am concerned, I partake with a grateful heart, why am I to be found fault with in regard to a thing for which I give thanks?"

010:031 Whether, then, you are eating or drinking, or whatever you are doing, let everything be done to the glory of God.

010:032 Do not be causes of stumbling either to Jews or to Gentiles, nor to the Church of God.

010:033 That is the way that I also seek in everything the approval of all men, not aiming at my own profit, but at that of the many, in the hope that they may be saved.

011:001 Be imitators of me, in so far as I in turn am an imitator of Christ.

011:002 Now I commend you for remembering me in everything, and because you hold fast truths and practices precisely as I have taught them to you.

011:003 I would have you know, however, that of every man, Christ is the Head, that of a woman her husband is the Head, and that God is Christ's Head.

011:004 A man who wears a veil when praying or prophesying dishonors his Head;

011:005 but a woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her Head, for it is exactly the same as if she had her hair cut short.

011:006 If a woman will not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair. But since it is a dishonor to a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her wear a veil.

011:007 For a man ought not to have a veil on his head, since he is the image and glory of God; while woman is the glory of man.

011:008 Man does not take his origin from woman, but woman takes hers from man.

011:009 For man was not created for woman's sake, but woman for man's.

011:010 That is why a woman ought to have on her head a symbol of subjection, because of the angels.