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they run in a race, all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain:

26 and, every one who contendeth for a prize, is temperate in all things: now, they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we, an incorruptible.

27 I therefore so run, not as one without a mark; so I fight, not as one that striketh the air;

28 but, I keep my body under, and bring it into subjection; lest that, when I have preached to others, I myself should be reprobated.

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xiv. 1, 2.

6 neither murmur ye, as some Ib. xi. 1, and of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

10 But, these things befell them for examples to us; and they are written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the world are come:

11 wherefore, let him who thinketh that he standeth, take heed lest he fall:

12 no trial hath taken you, but such as is suited to man; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tried above that ye are able to bear, but will, with the trial, make also a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

13 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idol-worship. 14 I speak to you as to wise men; judge ye yourselves what I say:

c. xii. 12.

c. ix. 14.

15 Is not the cup of blessing which we bless, the communion of the blood of Christ? is not the bread which we break, the communion of the body of Christ?

16 for, though we are many, we are one bread, and one body; for we all partake of that one bread:

17 consider Israel according to the flesh; are not they who eat the sacrifices, partakers of the altar?

18 What, then, do I mean? that an idol is any thing, or that a thing sacrificed to an idol is any thing? No:

19 but, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to false gods, and not to God; and I would not that ye should hold communion with false gods:

2 Cor. vi. 15. 20 ye cannot drink, both the cup of the Lord, and the cup of false gods: ye cannot partake, both of the Lord's table, and of the table of false gods. 21 Or, do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

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24 Whatever is sold in the market, eat; asking no question, for the sake of conscience:

25 for," the earth is the Ps. xxiv. 1. "Lord's, and the fulness there

" of."

26 If any of them that believe not invite you, and ye are willing to go, eat whatever is set before you; asking no question, for the sake of conscience:

27 but, if any one say to you, This hath been sacrificed; eat it not, for the sake of him who remarked it, and of conscience: 28 of conscience, I say, not thine own, but that of the other. 29 But, why, thou wilt say, is my freedom determined by another's conscience? if I partake with thanks, why am evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks?

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30 I answer, Whether, therefore, ye eat, or whether ye drink, or whatsoever thing ye do, do all to the glory of God: 31 be not causes of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:

32 even as I strive to please c. ix. 20-24. all men in all things; not seeking my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

33 Be imitators of me, acye cording as I also am of Christ.

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Eph. v. 23.

Gen. ii. 22.

1 Tim. v. 21. Rev. i. 20.

2 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is the Christ; and the head of the woman, is the man; and the head of the Christ, is God:

3 every man praying, or prophesying, having a covering on his head, dishonoureth his head; 4 but, every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered, dishonoureth her head; for, she is one and the same as a woman that is shaven.

5 If, then, the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn or shaven; but, if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

6 For, a man, indeed, ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but, the woman is the glory of the man:

7 for, the man was not first from the woman, but the woman from the man;

8 and again, the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man :

9 for this cause also, the woman ought to have something above her head, on account of the angels.

10 Nevertheless, in the Lord, the woman is not separate from the man, nor the man separate from the woman :

11 for, as the woman was from the man, even so is the man through the woman; but Gen. iii. 16. all from God.

12 Judge ye within yourselves: is it becoming, that a woman pray to God uncovered?

13 doth not nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?

14 but, if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her for her hair is given to her for a covering:

15 but, if any one is disposed to be contentious, we hold no such custom, neither do the churches of God.

16 But in this, I tell you, I v.1. praise you not; that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse:

17 for I hear, that when ye first assemble together in church, there are divisions among you;

18 and I partly believe it: because, there must be heresies among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you.

19 When ye, therefore, thus assemble together, it is not eating the Lord's supper:

20 for each of you, in eating,

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drinketh in a manner unworthy of them, eateth and drinketh condemnation to himself, by not considering the body. 30 For this cause, many among you are weak and sickly, and many sleep:

31 but, if we would thoroughly judge ourselves, we should not be judged :

32 for, when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened by him, that we may not be condemned with the world.

33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait one for another;

34 and if any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for condemnation and, the rest I will set in order when I come.

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26 for, as often as ye eat that bread, and drink that cup, ye declare the Lord's death, until

he come:

27 so that he who eateth that bread, and drinketh that cup, in a manner unworthy of the Lord, will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

28 But, let a man prove himself; and let him so eat of that bread, and drink of that cup: 29 for, he who eateth and

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CHAPTER XII.

AND I would not that ye should be ignorant, brethren, concerning spiritual gifts.

2 Ye know, that ye were Gentiles carried away to dumb idols, according as ye were led :

3 wherefore I give you to know, that no one who speaketh by the Spirit of God, saith, "Jesus is accursed:" and that no one can say, "Jesus is the Rom. x. 10. "Lord," but by the Holy Spirit.

4 But there are diversities of Ib. xii. 6. gifts; yet it is the same Spirit :

c. x. 16.

5 and diversities of ministries; yet it is the same Lord:

6 and diversities of operations; yet it is the same God that worketh them all, in all. 7 But, the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each, as is most expedient:

8 for, to one is given by the Spirit, a measure of wisdom; to another, a measure of knowledge, by the same Spirit;

9 to another faith, by the same Spirit; to another, gifts of healing, by one and the same Spirit ;

10 to another, workings of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, discernment of spirits; to another, different kinds of tongues :

11 but, it is one and the same Spirit that worketh all these, distributing severally to each, according as he will:

12 for, as the body is one, though it hath many members, and as all the members of the body, though many, are but one body; so also is Christ:

13 for, we are all baptized by one Spirit into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free; and we have all been made to drink into one Spirit.

14 For, the body is not one member, but many:

15 if the foot should say, Because I am not the hand, I am

not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

16 and if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

17 if the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? if the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? 18 but now, God hath placed every one of the members in the body, according as it hath pleased him.

19 And if all were one member, where were the body? 20 but now, they are many members, yet but one body; 21 and the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you:

22 nay, the members of the body which appear to be the weakest, are much the most

necessary:

23 and those parts of the body, which we account less honourable, we clothe with greater honour; so that our uncomely parts have the greater comeliness:

24 for, our comely parts have no want; but, God hath tempered the body together, giving something more abundant to the part that was deficient;

25 that there might be no schism in the body, but that all the members should have

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