For the message of the cross is of course, foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is a power of God.

And we toil, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

being slandered, we entreat. We became as trash of the world, an offscouring of all things, until now.

For I truly, as being absent in the body but present in the spirit, I have already, as though present, judged the man who committed this thing this way.

Were thou called being a bondman? It should not concern thee. However if also thou are able to become free, take advantage of it instead.

For if some man sees thee, who have knowledge, dining in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

And by thy knowledge the brother, being weak, will be ruined, for whom Christ died.

Know ye not that those being employed at the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar are partakers at the altar?

For although being free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that I might gain the more.

to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ), so that I might gain men without law.

Eat everything being sold in a meat market, inquiring of nothing because of the conscience,

If any of those unbelievers invites you, and ye want to go, eat everything being set before you, inquiring of nothing because of the conscience.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory of God, but woman is a glory of man.

Ye know that, while Gentiles, ye were being carried away to the voiceless idols, as ye were led.

For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

Likewise lifeless things that give a sound, whether flute or harp, if they give no distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is being piped or harped?