Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 CorinthiansWeymouth, Richard Francis
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Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 Corinthians
Weymouth, Richard Francis
Bible. Corinthians
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.
011:011 Yet, in the Lord, woman is not independent of man nor man
independent of woman.
011:012 For just as woman originates from man, so also man comes
into existence through woman, but everything springs
originally from God.
011:013 Judge of this for your own selves: is it seemly for a woman
to pray to God when she is unveiled?
011:014 Does not Nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair
it is a dishonor to him,
011:015 but that if a woman has long hair it is her glory, because her
hair was given her for a covering?
011:016 But if any one is inclined to be contentious on the point,
we have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God.
011:017 But while giving you these instructions, there is one thing
I cannot praise--your meeting together, with bad rather
than good results.
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