Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech: 1 Corinthians | Page 9

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. 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. 011:018 for, in the first place, when you meet as a Church, there are divisions among you. This is what I am told, and I believe that there is some truth in it. 011:019 For there must of necessity be differences of opinion among you, in order that it may be plainly seen who are the men of sterling worth among you. 011:020 When, however, you meet in one place,