Do Your Best to Offend No One
[25-33] So eat whatever is sold in the meat market, and for the sake of your conscience, don’t ask any questions: because the whole earth is God's, and everything in it. And if any of those who don’t believe call you to a celebration, and you want to go; eat whatever is set before you, and don’t ask any questions for the sake of your conscience.
But if anyone says to you, “This is offered in sacrifice for false worship”, don’t eat for the sake of the one who told you, and for conscience sake, because the earth is God's, and everything in it: When I say conscience, I mean the other person’s, because, why should my freedom be judged by another person's conscience? Because if I, by grace, am one who has taken part, why am I evil spoken of for what I give thanks? So whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do it all in praise of God.
Do your best to offend no one, not the Jews, nor the other peoples, nor the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in everything, not looking for my own good, but for the good of many, so that they might be saved.
On Order of Public Worship
11[1-16] Be followers of me, just as I am of Christ also. Christians, I praise you because you remember me in everything, and willingly do what I have told you. But I want you to know, that man’s power comes from Christ; and the woman’s power comes from the man; and Christ’s power comes from God. Every man praying or preaching, having their head covered, dishonors their authority.
But every woman that prays or preaches with her bare head dishonors her authority, because that is just as if her head was shaved. If the woman isn’t covered, she may as well be shaved: and if it’s shameful for a woman to have her head shaved, she should be covered as well. Men shouldn’t cover their head, because they’re a picture and reflection of God: but woman is the reflection of man. The man isn’t from the woman; but the woman from the man. And the man wasn’t created for the woman; but the woman to be the helper of the man. Because of this, the woman should have a symbol of authority on her head when she prays or preaches because of the angels who are present.
Even so, the man isn’t free from the woman, nor the woman free from the man, in God. Just as the woman is of the man, even so the man is also by the woman; but everything is of God. Judge for yourselves: is it good for a woman pray to God with her head bared? Doesn’t even nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it’s shameful to them? But if a woman has long hair, it’s a praise to her because her hair is her covering. But if anyone wants to argue about it, we don’t practice this way of life, nor do any of the churches of God.
On the Celebration of the Last Supper
[17-34] In this that I tell you now, I don’t praise you, because you come together for the bad, rather than for good. First of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there are disagreements among you; and I know it in part. But there must be differences among you, to show clearly which of you are approved by God. So when you come together into one place, this isn’t to eat the Christ's supper, because when you eat, everyone takes their own supper before the others: and one is hungry, and another is drunk.
Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you hate the church of God, and want to shame those who don’t have anything? What should I tell you? Should I praise you in this? No, I don’t praise you. I’ve gotten from Christ what I have given to you, that the same night in which Christ Yeshua was handed over, the Christ took the bread, gave thanks, then broke it, saying, “Take and eat: this is the symbol of my body, which is broken for you: do this to remember Me.”
Then the Christ also took the cup, after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the New Word written in my blood: do this, as often as you drink it, to remember Me.” And as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you show Yeshua's death till the Christ comes again. So whoever eats this bread, and drinks this cup of Christ, being unworthy, will be guilty of the body and blood of Christ.
But everyone should question themselves, before they eat of that bread, or drink of that cup, because whoever eats and drinks, being unworthy, eats and drinks damnation to themselves, not understanding Christ's body. This is why so many of you are weak and sickly, and many more are dead. If we judged ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged by others. But when we are judged, we are corrected by God, so that we won’t be punished with the rest of the world. So, my Christians, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. And if anyone hungers, let them eat at home; so that you don’t come together and bring judgment on yourselves. And I will set everything else in order when I come.
