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the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body which is weake, be boldened to eate those things
and in spirite: but shee that is maried, careth which are sacrificed to idoles? 11 And through
for the things of the worlde, howe shee may thy knowledge shall the weake brother perish,
please her husband. 35 And this I speake for your for whome Christ died. 12 Nowe when ye sinne
owne commoditie, not to tangle you in a snare, so against the brethren, and wound their weake
but that yee follow that, which is honest, and conscience, ye sinne against Christ. 13 Wherefore
that yee may cleaue fast vnto the Lord without if meate offende my brother, I wil eate no flesh
separation. 36 But if any man thinke that it is while the world standeth, that I may not offend
vncomely for his virgine, if shee passe the flower my brother.
of her age, and neede so require, let him do
what he will, he sinneth not: let them be maried. 9
37 Neuerthelesse, hee that standeth firme in his 1 Am I not an Apostle? am I not free? haue
heart, that hee hath no neede, but hath power I not seene Iesus Christ our Lord? are ye not
ouer his owne will, and hath so decreed in his my worke in the Lord? 2 If I be not an Apostle
heart, that hee will keepe his virgine, hee doeth
well. 38 So then hee that giueth her to mariage, vnto other, yet doutlesse I am vnto you: for ye
doeth well, but he that giueth her not to mariage, are the seale of mine Apostleship in the Lord.
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doeth better. 39 The wife is bounde by the Lawe, 4 My defence to them that examine mee, is this,
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as long as her husband liueth: but if her husband Haue we not power to eat and to drinke? Or
bee dead, shee is at libertie to marie with whome haue we not power to lead about a wife being a
she will, onely in the Lord. 40 But shee is more sister, as well as the rest of the Apostles, and as
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blessed, if she so abide, in my iudgement: and I the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? Or I only
thinke that I haue also the Spirite of God. and Barnabas, haue not we power not to worke?
7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his owne coste?
8 who planteth a vineyarde, and eateth not of the

1 And as touching things sacrificed vnto idols, fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flocke, and eateth
Say I these
not of the milke of the flocke?
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wee knowe that wee all haue knowledge: knowl- thinges according to man? saith not the Lawe
edge puffeth vp, but loue edifieth. 2 Nowe, if the same also? 9 For it is written in the Lawe
any man thinke that hee knoweth any thing, of Moses, Thou shalt not mussell the mouth of
hee knoweth nothing yet as hee ought to knowe. the oxe that treadeth out the corne: doeth God
3 But if any man loue God, the same is knowen of take care for oxen? 10 Either saith hee it not
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him. Concerning therefore the eating of things altogether for our sakes? For our sakes no doubt
sacrificed vnto idoles, we knowe that an idole is it is written, that he which eareth, should eare in
hope, and that he that thresheth in hope, should
nothing in the worlde, and that there is none 11
other God but one. 5 For though there bee that be partaker of his hope. If wee haue sowen
are called gods, whether in heauen, or in earth vnto you spirituall thinges, is it a great thing if we
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(as there be many gods, and many lords) Yet reape your carnall thinges? If others with you
vnto vs there is but one God, which is that Father, bee partakers of this power, are not we rather?
of whome are all things, and we in him: and neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but
one Lord Iesus Christ, by whome are all things, suffer all things, that we should not hinder the
and we by him. 7 But euery man hath not that Gospel of Christ. 13 Doe ye not knowe, that they
knowledge: for many hauing conscience of the which minister about the holy things, eate of the
idole, vntill this houre, eate as a thing sacrificed things of the Temple? and they which waite at
vnto the idole, and so their conscience being the altar, are partakers with the altar? 14 So also
weake, is defiled. 8 But meate maketh not vs hath the Lord ordeined, that they which preach
acceptable to God, for neither if we eate, haue ye Gospel, should liue of the Gospel. 15 But I haue
we the more: neither if we eate not, haue we vsed none of these things: neither wrote I these
the lesse. 9 But take heede lest by any meanes things, that it should be so done vnto me: for
this power of yours be an occasion of falling, it were better for me to die, then that any man
to them that are weake. 10 For if any man see should make my reioycing vaine. 16 For though
thee which hast knowledge, sit at table in the I preach the Gospel, I haue nothing to reioyce of:
idoles temple, shall not the conscience of him for necessitie is laid vpon me, and woe is vnto me,