If a woman does not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair; now if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her be veiled.

A man, indeed, ought not to have his head veiled, for he is an image and glory of God; but woman is a glory of man.

For this reason the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of her guardian angels.

Nor does nature itself teach you that it is a disgrace to a man to have long hair,

What! Have you no houses in which to eat or drink? or do you wish to show your contempt for the church of God, and to shame those who have no homes to eat in? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I certainly do not praise you.

And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you". nor again of head to the feet, "I have no need for you."

upon those parts of the body which we esteem less honorable, we bestow more abundant honor, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

For whereas our comely parts have no need, God has tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that member in which lacked;

Have all gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.

Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

And though I sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it avails me nothing.

When I was a child I spoke like a child, felt like a child, thought like a child; now that I am become a man, I have done with childish things.

For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

Now I am calling to your remembrance, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which you also received, and on which you have taken your stand,

by which also you are saved, if you are holding fast the message which I preached to you; unless indeed you have believed in vain.

More than that, those who are sleeping in Christ have perished.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all mankind most pitiable.

But now, now, Christ is risen from the dead, the first-fruit of those who have fallen asleep.

Every day I am facing death, my brothers, I affirm it by that pride in you which I have through Christ Jesus our Lord.

If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what good does it do me? If the dead do not rise, Let us eat and drink, For we shall be dead tomorrow.

Wake up, do justly, cease from sin; for I say to your shame that some of you have no acquaintance with God.

As we have borne the likeness of him who was of earth, so also let us bear the likeness of Him who is of heaven.

Now I shall come to you after I have gone through Macedonia.

As for our Apollos, I have many times urged him to go to you with the others, but he was always unwilling to go to you at this time. He will come, however, whenever he has a good opportunity.

I am glad that Stephanus and Fortunatus and Achaicus have arrived, for they have made up for your absence.

For just as I have more than my share in the sufferings of the Christ, so also through the Christ I have more than my share of comfort.

Indeed, I had in myself, and still have, the sentence of death, in order that I might not rely on myself, but on God who raises the dead to life.

He delivered me from such a death, and will deliver me. On him I have set my hopes that he will continue to deliver me,

For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you.

And in this confidence I intended to visit you, before going elsewhere, that you might have a pleasure twice over.

for if I cause you grief, who is there to cause me joy except those whom I have grieved?

If you forgive the man, I forgive him, too; for whatever I have forgiven has been forgiven in the presence of Christ,

Such confidence I have through Christ before God.

So then, as I have this ministry because of God's mercy to me, I do not lose heart.

I have renounced the hidden things of shame, not spending my life in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but setting forth the truth openly, I strive to commend myself to every man's conscience as in the sight of God.

But having the same spirit of faith of which it is written, I believed, and therefore have spoken, I also believe and so I speak.

For this reason, as I have said, I do not lose courage, but even though my outward man is wasting away, my inward man is being renewed, day by day.

For I know, if this earthly tent of mine were struck, I have a mansion built by God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

So I have good courage, and am well pleased rather, to be in banishment from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

I am not "commending myself to you again," but I am giving you an occasion of boasting on my behalf, so that you may have an answer ready for those who boast in externals, and not in the heart.

For the love of Christ overmasters me; because I thus judge that if One has died for all, then all have died;

Therefore henceforth I know no one simply as a man??ven if I have known Christ as a man, yet now I do so no longer.

For he said: In an acceptable time have I heard thee, And in the day of salvation have I succored thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time! behold, now is the day of salvation!

Make room for me in your hearts! I have wronged no man, I have ruined no man, I have defrauded no man.

I am not saying this to blame you, for as I have already said, I hold you in my heart to live together and to die together.

Note the results of this pain which God permitted; what earnestness it has called forth in you, what explanations, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what fervor, what punishment of wrong. In every way you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

This is what comforts me. In addition to this comfort of mine, I have been made still happier by the happiness of Titus; because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, I have not been put to shame. But as in every matter I have spoken the truth to you, so also my boast to Titus has been proved to be the truth.

I rejoice that I have complete confidence in you.

For I can testify that according to their ability, and even beyond their ability, of their own free will, too, they have given help.

With the result that I have been begging Titus that, as he had been the one to begin the work with you, so he should complete among you this grace also.

But thanks be to God who has inspired in the heart of Titus the same zeal on your behalf that I have.

With them I am sending our brother of whose zeal I have often had proof in many ways, and who is now zealous because of his great confidence in you.

So I have thought that I must ask these brothers to visit you beforehand, and get your promised contribution ready in advance. I want it to be given of your bounty, not extorted from your covetousness.

If, however, I were to boast more loudly concerning the authority which the Lord gave me (not to cast you down, but to build you up), I should have no cause for shame.

I have not indeed the audacity to class myself among, or compare myself with, certain of the self-commenders; yet they are not wise in measuring themselves by one another and in comparing themselves with one another.

For I am not overstepping the limits of my authority, as though I reached you not; since I have already come even as far as Corinth to proclaim the gospel of Christ.

I have a divine jealousy on your behalf; for I betrothed you to one only husband, even to Christ, that I might present you to him, a chaste virgin.

Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes.

Three times I have been scourged by the Romans; once I have been stoned; three times have I been shipwrecked; a night and a day have I been adrift in the open sea.

My journeys have been many; in perils of rivers, in perils of bandits; in perils from my countrymen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers;

I am become a fool??ou have forced me to; for you yourselves ought to have been my vindicators. In no respect am I inferior to these superapostolic apostles, even though I am nothing.

and lest when I come again my God may humble me before you, and lest I shall mourn for many those who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurity and immorality and wantonness which they have practised.

I have said formerly, and I now forewarn you as when I was present the second time, so now when I am absent the second time, so now when I am absent, saying to those who had sinned before, and to all the rest, "If I come again, I will not spare,"

For I have no power against the truth, but only in defense of the truth.

For this reason I am writing thus while absent, so that when I come, I may not have to deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.

I have said it before, and I now repeat it, if any one is preaching a gospel to you other than that which you have received, let him be accursed.

For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel I preach is not man-made;

For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how furiously I used to persecute the church of God, and how I kept seeking to root it out;

(I went up at that time in obedience to a revelation). And I laid before them the gospel which I am wont to preach among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those in authority, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

"yet because we know that no man is justified by the works of the Law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we ourselves also have put our faith in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the Law; for "By the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified."

But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves also have been found to be sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? Far from it!

I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

Did you have such experience to no purpose??f indeed it was really to no purpose?

but a curse rests on those who have their root in the works of the Law; for it is written. Cursed is every one that continues not in all the things written in the Book of the Law, to do them.

Is the Law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not; for if a law had been given which could make alive, then righteousness would actually have come from law;

but the Scripture has shut up the whole world in prison together under sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.

For all of you who were baptized into Christ, have clothed yourselves with Christ.

But once, when you Gentiles had no knowledge of God, you were slaves to gods which have no real being.

Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again?

I am alarmed about you for fear lest I may have bestowed labor on you to no purpose.

Brothers, I beseech you, become as I am, because I also have become as you are. You never did me any wrong;

Why then did you account yourselves so happy? (For I bear you witness that if you could you would have torn out your own eyes and given them to me.)

It is always an honorable thing to have your favor sought in an honorable cause, always, and not only when I am with you.

As for me, I am fully trusting you in the Lord that you will be no otherwise minded; but he who is trying to unsettle you will have to bear his punishment, whoever he may be.

Would to God that those who are trying to unsettle you would even have themselves mutilated.

envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and appetites.

Let each one test his own work, and he will then have something to be proud of by comparing himself with himself, and not with any one else;

So then, as we have opportunity, let is do good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of faith.

See with what large letters I have written to you in my own handwriting!

God forbid that I should glory in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world has been crucified to me and I have been crucified to the world.

It is in him we have deliverance, the forgiveness of our trespasses, through his blood;

It is he in whom we Jews also have our inheritance, having been chosen beforehand according to the purpose of Him who executes all things according to the counsel of his will,

even while we were dead in our trespasses, made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved).

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is God's gift.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near in the blood of Christ.

because it is through him that we both have access in one spirit to the Father.

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles??2 for surely you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God entrusted to me for you?