head uncovered, dishonors her head.

11:5.

For it is

But the

one and the same thing as if she got herself shaved. For if a woman does not keep her head covered, let her also have her hair cut short. But since it is a shame for a woman to have her hair cut short, or to get herself shaved, let her keep her head covered. A man ought not to have his head covered. For he is the image and glory of God. woman is the glory of the man. For it was not man who was taken from woman, but woman who was taken from man. And again. It was not man who was created for the woman, but woman for the man. For this reason a woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head because of the angels. And yet, in the service of the Lord, the woman is not independent of the man, nor the man of the woman. For just as the woman was taken from the man, so also does the man come by means of the woman. And everything comes from God. Judge for yourselves. Is it becoming for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a disgrace to him, but if a woman has long hair it is her beauty? For her hair is given to her for a covering. But if any one still thinks it right to captiously argue the matter, all we have to say is, we, ourselves, have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God.

1 Cor. 11: 17.

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But, in giving you this charge, I do not praise you. For you are not the better, but the worse, for meeting together for worship. For in the first place, when you meet for worship at Church I hear there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it. Yes, there must also be parties among you so that men of real worth may be developed among you. So when you meet for worship it is not to eat a supper of the Lord's institution. For when you eat, each one makes sure of his own supper first, and so one is hungry, and another is drunk. Surely you have houses to eat and drink in? Or, do you despise the Church of God, and so are doing it to disgrace the poor? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? For this I do not praise you. For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and, when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said: This is Do this in memory of

my body which is for you. me. In the same way also the cup after supper, saying: This cup is the agreement made with my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in memory of me. For as often as you eat this loaf of bread and drink the cup, you keep proclaiming the Lord's death up to the very moment of his coming again. So, then, whoever eats the bread, or drinks the Lord's cup in an unworthy spirit, will have to an

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swer for an offense against the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man carefully examine himself, and only after such an honest testing of his motives let him eat any of the loaf, and drink from the cup. For he who eats and drinks, brings condemnation on himself by his eating and drinking, if he does not think of the body as he ought to. This is why many of you are weak and sick, and a considerable number are sleeping the sleep of death. But if we would look at ourselves as we ought to, we should not be undergoing judgment as we now are. since we are being thus judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined, so that we may not be condemned with the world. So, then, my brothers, when you come to a service for the purpose of eating, wait for each other. If any one is hungry, let him eat at home so that your coming to service may not be a coming to judgment.

But

The other things will be arranged by me whenever I come.

Now, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant about the spiritual gifts. You know that when you were heathen you were continually going astray after idols which could not speak, just as you happened to be led. For this reason I tell you plainly that no one is speaking under the influence of the

1 COR. 12: 3.

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Spirit of God, when he says: Let Jesus be cursed. And no one can say: Jesus is Lord, except under the influence of the Holy Spirit.

Now there are different kinds of favors, but the same Spirit. And there are different ways of serving the Lord, but the Lord is the same. And there are different effects produced in us, but it is the same God who produces every effect in every person. But to each one is spiritual light given for his profit. To one is given, by the Spirit's means, the ability to speak wisely, to another the ability to speak with knowledge through the same Spirit, to another kind of person faith is given by the same Spirit, to another the ability to cure diseases by means of the one Spirit, to another the doing of mighty deeds, to another the ability to declare God's truth, to another the gift of distinguishing between true and false inspiration, to another kind of person different kinds of languages, to another the ability to explain them. But all these effects are produced in us by the one and the same Spirit who keeps distributing to each one separately just as he chooses.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they are many, are yet but one body, so is it also with the Christ. For it was in one Spirit, to form one body, we were all purified, whether we were Jews or Greeks, whether we were slaves or free

12: 13.

For the body is

If the foot says:

men, and we all drank one Spirit. not one member, but many. Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body, it does not for this reason cease to belong to the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be? But, as it is, God has put each one of the members in the body just as he saw fit. If they were all one member, where would the body be? But, as it is, there are many members, but only one body. The eye cannot say to the hand: I have no need of you. Nor, again, can the head say to the feet: I have no need of you. On the contrary, the real state of the case is much rather this: Those members of the body which seem to be naturally weakest, are essential, and on those parts of the body which we consider as of the least esteem we bestow the most honor. And to our unseemly parts a greater grace is added which our graceful parts do not require. Yes, by giving special dignity to the part deficient in it, God constructed the body so that there should be no disunion in it, and so that the members should have the same care for each other.

And so, if one member suffers,

All the members suffer with it.

If one member is honored,

All the members rejoice with it.