WEBVTT 00:00:00.999 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.740 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:08.960 in a year. Today's reading is from the first 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:11.500 epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, chapters 00:00:11.500 --> 00:00:16.359 7 through 11. Chapter 7. Now concerning the things 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:19.379 of which you wrote to me, it is good for a man 00:00:19.379 --> 00:00:22.420 not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, because of 00:00:22.420 --> 00:00:25.160 sexual immorality, let each man have his own 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:27.870 wife. and let each woman have her own husband. 00:00:28.109 --> 00:00:30.809 Let the husband render to his wife the affection 00:00:30.809 --> 00:00:34.310 due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 00:00:34.570 --> 00:00:37.289 The wife does not have authority over her own 00:00:37.289 --> 00:00:40.390 body, but the husband does. And likewise, the 00:00:40.390 --> 00:00:42.310 husband does not have authority over his own 00:00:42.310 --> 00:00:45.710 body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another 00:00:45.710 --> 00:00:48.990 except with consent for a time that you may give 00:00:48.990 --> 00:00:51.630 yourselves to fasting and prayer. and come together 00:00:51.630 --> 00:00:54.670 again, so that Satan does not tempt you because 00:00:54.670 --> 00:00:57.429 of your lack of self -control. But I say this 00:00:57.429 --> 00:01:00.329 as a concession, not as a commandment. For I 00:01:00.329 --> 00:01:03.750 wish that all men were even as I myself. But 00:01:03.750 --> 00:01:06.909 each one has his own gift from God, one in this 00:01:06.909 --> 00:01:09.810 manner and another in that. But I say to the 00:01:09.810 --> 00:01:12.390 unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them 00:01:12.390 --> 00:01:15.650 if they remain even as I am. But if they cannot 00:01:15.650 --> 00:01:18.730 exercise self -control, let them marry. For it 00:01:18.730 --> 00:01:20.810 is better to marry than to burn with passion. 00:01:21.129 --> 00:01:24.049 Now to the married I command, yet not I, but 00:01:24.049 --> 00:01:26.790 the Lord. A wife is not to depart from her husband. 00:01:27.090 --> 00:01:30.650 But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried 00:01:30.650 --> 00:01:33.670 or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband 00:01:33.670 --> 00:01:36.670 is not to divorce his wife. But to the rest I, 00:01:36.890 --> 00:01:39.950 not the Lord, say, If any brother has a wife 00:01:39.950 --> 00:01:42.329 who does not believe, and she is willing to live 00:01:42.329 --> 00:01:45.090 with him, let him not divorce her. And a woman 00:01:45.090 --> 00:01:47.980 who has a husband who does not believe, If he 00:01:47.980 --> 00:01:50.760 is willing to live with her, let her not divorce 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:53.560 him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:56.939 by the wife. An unbelieving wife is sanctified 00:01:56.939 --> 00:02:00.120 by the husband. Otherwise, your children would 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:03.500 be unclean. But now they are holy. But if the 00:02:03.500 --> 00:02:06.260 unbeliever departs, let him depart. A brother 00:02:06.260 --> 00:02:09.340 or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. 00:02:09.780 --> 00:02:12.659 But God has called us to peace. For how do you 00:02:12.659 --> 00:02:15.000 know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? 00:02:15.219 --> 00:02:17.259 Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will 00:02:17.259 --> 00:02:20.560 save your wife? But as God has distributed to 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:23.379 each one, as the Lord has called each one, so 00:02:23.379 --> 00:02:26.719 let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches. 00:02:27.300 --> 00:02:30.219 Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him 00:02:30.219 --> 00:02:33.099 not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while 00:02:33.099 --> 00:02:37.819 uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised. Circumcision 00:02:37.819 --> 00:02:40.770 is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. But 00:02:40.770 --> 00:02:43.169 keeping the commandments of God is what matters. 00:02:43.349 --> 00:02:45.710 Let each one remain in the same calling in which 00:02:45.710 --> 00:02:48.629 he was called. Were you called while a slave? 00:02:48.830 --> 00:02:51.590 Do not be concerned about it. But if you can 00:02:51.590 --> 00:02:54.949 be made free, rather use it. For he who is called 00:02:54.949 --> 00:02:57.990 in the Lord while a slave is the Lord's freedman. 00:02:58.389 --> 00:03:02.270 Likewise, he who is called while free is Christ's 00:03:02.270 --> 00:03:05.229 slave. You were bought at a price. Do not become 00:03:05.229 --> 00:03:08.439 slaves of men. Brethren, let each one remain 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:11.240 with God in that state in which he was called. 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:14.300 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment 00:03:14.300 --> 00:03:17.819 from the Lord, yet I give judgment as one whom 00:03:17.819 --> 00:03:20.819 the Lord in his mercy has made trustworthy. I 00:03:20.819 --> 00:03:23.759 suppose therefore that this is good because of 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:26.560 the present distress, that it is good for a man 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:29.539 to remain as he is. Are you bound to a wife? 00:03:29.699 --> 00:03:32.319 Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:35.800 a wife? Do not seek a wife. But even if you do 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:39.340 marry, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, 00:03:39.379 --> 00:03:42.479 she has not sinned. Nevertheless, such will have 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:45.120 trouble in the flesh, but I would spare you. 00:03:45.340 --> 00:03:48.219 But this I say, brethren, the time is short, 00:03:48.419 --> 00:03:51.419 so that from now on even those who have wives 00:03:51.419 --> 00:03:54.460 should be as though they had none. Those who 00:03:54.460 --> 00:03:57.500 weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice, 00:03:57.930 --> 00:04:01.189 as though they did not rejoice, those who buy 00:04:01.189 --> 00:04:03.629 as though they did not possess, and those who 00:04:03.629 --> 00:04:07.409 use this world as not misusing it. For the form 00:04:07.409 --> 00:04:10.569 of this world is passing away. But I want you 00:04:10.569 --> 00:04:13.669 to be without care. He who is unmarried cares 00:04:13.669 --> 00:04:16.110 for the things of the Lord, how he may please 00:04:16.110 --> 00:04:18.910 the Lord. But he who is married cares about the 00:04:18.910 --> 00:04:21.329 things of the world, how he may please his wife. 00:04:21.810 --> 00:04:24.430 There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. 00:04:24.670 --> 00:04:27.110 The unmarried woman cares about the things of 00:04:27.110 --> 00:04:55.889 the Lord. Let him do what he wishes. He does 00:04:55.889 --> 00:04:59.180 not sin. Let them marry. Nevertheless, he who 00:04:59.180 --> 00:05:02.379 stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, 00:05:02.660 --> 00:05:05.860 but has power over his own will and has so determined 00:05:05.860 --> 00:05:08.699 in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does 00:05:08.699 --> 00:05:11.879 well. So then he who gives her in marriage does 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:14.439 well, but he who does not give her in marriage 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:18.259 does better. A wife is bound by law as long as 00:05:18.259 --> 00:05:21.139 her husband lives, but if her husband dies, she 00:05:21.139 --> 00:05:24.220 is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes. 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:27.720 only in the Lord. But she is happier if she remains 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:30.620 as she is according to my judgment. And I think 00:05:30.620 --> 00:05:36.759 I also have the Spirit of God. Chapter 8 Now 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:39.620 concerning things offered to idols, we know that 00:05:39.620 --> 00:05:42.800 we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:46.139 love edifies. And if anyone thinks that he knows 00:05:46.139 --> 00:05:48.959 anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:52.519 know. But if anyone loves God, this one is known 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:55.810 by him. Therefore concerning the eating of things 00:05:55.810 --> 00:05:58.810 offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing 00:05:58.810 --> 00:06:01.610 in the world, and that there is no other God 00:06:01.610 --> 00:06:05.230 but one. For even if there are so -called gods, 00:06:05.509 --> 00:06:08.470 whether in heaven or on earth, as there are many 00:06:08.470 --> 00:06:11.889 gods and many lords, yet for us there is one 00:06:11.889 --> 00:06:15.189 God, the Father, of whom are all things, and 00:06:15.189 --> 00:06:18.350 we for him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through 00:06:18.350 --> 00:06:20.870 whom are all things, and through whom we live. 00:06:21.389 --> 00:06:24.550 However, there is not in everyone that knowledge. 00:06:24.750 --> 00:06:27.910 For some with consciousness of the idol, until 00:06:27.910 --> 00:06:31.389 now, eat it as a thing offered to an idol, and 00:06:31.389 --> 00:06:34.009 their conscience, being weak, is defiled. But 00:06:34.009 --> 00:06:36.709 food does not command us to God. Neither if we 00:06:36.709 --> 00:06:39.810 eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are 00:06:39.810 --> 00:06:43.110 we the worse. But beware lest somehow this liberty 00:06:43.110 --> 00:06:46.170 of yours become a stumbling block to those who 00:06:46.170 --> 00:06:49.449 are weak. For if anyone sees you who have knowledge 00:06:49.449 --> 00:06:52.529 eating in an idol's temple, Will not the conscience 00:06:52.529 --> 00:06:55.709 of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those 00:06:55.709 --> 00:06:58.370 things offered to idols? And because of your 00:06:58.370 --> 00:07:00.810 knowledge, shall the weak brother perish, for 00:07:00.810 --> 00:07:04.550 whom Christ died? But when you thus sin against 00:07:04.550 --> 00:07:06.889 the brethren and wound their weak conscience, 00:07:07.129 --> 00:07:10.449 you sin against Christ. Therefore, if food makes 00:07:10.449 --> 00:07:13.069 my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, 00:07:13.250 --> 00:07:21.290 lest I make my brother stumble. Am I not free? 00:07:21.529 --> 00:07:24.970 Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you 00:07:24.970 --> 00:07:28.129 not my work in the Lord? If I am not an apostle 00:07:28.129 --> 00:07:31.410 to others, yet doubtless I am to you, for you 00:07:31.410 --> 00:07:34.470 are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. My 00:07:34.470 --> 00:07:37.870 defense to those who examine me is this. Do we 00:07:37.870 --> 00:07:40.610 have no right to eat and drink? Do we have no 00:07:40.610 --> 00:07:43.910 right to take along a believing wife, as do also 00:07:43.910 --> 00:07:46.149 the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord 00:07:46.149 --> 00:07:49.709 and Cephas? Or is it only Barnabas and I who 00:07:49.709 --> 00:07:52.810 have no right to refrain from working? Who ever 00:07:52.810 --> 00:07:56.290 goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a 00:07:56.290 --> 00:07:59.149 vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who 00:07:59.149 --> 00:08:01.509 tends a flock and does not drink of the milk 00:08:01.509 --> 00:08:04.509 of the flock? Do I say these things as a mere 00:08:04.509 --> 00:08:08.269 man? Or does not the law say the same also? For 00:08:08.269 --> 00:08:10.550 it is written in the law of Moses, you shall 00:08:10.550 --> 00:08:13.170 not muzzle an ox while it shreds out the grain. 00:08:13.350 --> 00:08:16.379 Is it oxen God is concerned about? or does he 00:08:16.379 --> 00:08:19.740 say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes 00:08:19.740 --> 00:08:22.560 no doubt this is written, that he who plows should 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:26.019 plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should 00:08:26.019 --> 00:08:29.259 be partaker of his hope. If we have sown spiritual 00:08:29.259 --> 00:08:32.399 things for you, is it a great thing if we reap 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:34.899 your material things? If others are partakers 00:08:34.899 --> 00:08:37.480 of this right over you, are we not even more? 00:08:37.899 --> 00:08:41.120 Nevertheless, we have not used this right, but 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:43.580 endure all things lest we hinder the gospel of 00:08:43.580 --> 00:08:46.269 Christ. Do you not know that those who minister 00:08:46.269 --> 00:08:49.350 the holy things eat of the things of the temple, 00:08:49.509 --> 00:08:51.970 and those who serve at the altar partake of the 00:08:51.970 --> 00:08:54.950 offerings of the altar? Even so, the Lord has 00:08:54.950 --> 00:08:57.649 commanded that those who preach the gospel should 00:08:57.649 --> 00:09:00.730 live from the gospel. But I have used none of 00:09:00.730 --> 00:09:03.070 these things, nor have I written these things 00:09:03.070 --> 00:09:17.690 that it should be done so to me. Yes, woe is 00:09:17.690 --> 00:09:20.929 me if I do not preach the gospel. For if I do 00:09:20.929 --> 00:09:23.710 this willingly, I have a reward. But if against 00:09:23.710 --> 00:09:26.490 my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship, 00:09:26.750 --> 00:09:29.850 what is my reward then? That when I preach the 00:09:29.850 --> 00:09:32.830 gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without 00:09:32.830 --> 00:09:36.490 charge, that I may not abuse my authority in 00:09:36.490 --> 00:09:39.409 the gospel. For though I am free from all men, 00:09:39.570 --> 00:09:43.049 I have made myself a servant to all, that I might 00:09:43.049 --> 00:09:46.629 win the more. And to the Jews I became as a Jew, 00:09:46.769 --> 00:09:49.750 that I might win Jews. To those who are under 00:09:49.750 --> 00:09:52.809 the law, as under the law, that I might win those 00:09:52.809 --> 00:09:55.409 who are under the law. To those who are without 00:09:55.409 --> 00:09:58.740 law, as without law. not being without law toward 00:09:58.740 --> 00:10:02.600 God, but under law toward Christ, that I might 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:05.940 win those who are without law. To the weak I 00:10:05.940 --> 00:10:08.899 became as weak, that I might win the weak. I 00:10:08.899 --> 00:10:11.460 have become all things to all men, that I might 00:10:11.460 --> 00:10:15.360 by all means save some. Now this I do for the 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:18.620 gospel's sake, that I may be partaker of it with 00:10:18.620 --> 00:10:21.700 you. Do you not know that those who run in a 00:10:21.700 --> 00:10:25.149 race all run, but one receives the prize? Run 00:10:25.149 --> 00:10:28.169 in such a way that you may obtain it, and everyone 00:10:28.169 --> 00:10:30.809 who competes for the prize is temperate in all 00:10:30.809 --> 00:10:33.870 things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable 00:10:33.870 --> 00:10:37.429 crown, but we for an imperishable crown. Therefore 00:10:37.429 --> 00:10:41.250 I run thus, not with uncertainty. Thus I fight, 00:10:41.429 --> 00:10:44.690 not as one who beats the air, but I discipline 00:10:44.690 --> 00:10:47.909 my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when 00:10:47.909 --> 00:10:51.049 I have preached to others, I myself should become 00:10:51.049 --> 00:10:56.940 disqualified. Chapter 10 Moreover, brethren, 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:59.860 I do not want you to be unaware that all our 00:10:59.860 --> 00:11:03.100 fathers were under the cloud. All passed through 00:11:03.100 --> 00:11:05.960 the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.039 cloud and in the sea, all ate the same spiritual 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:12.059 food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. 00:11:12.259 --> 00:11:14.980 For they drank of that spiritual rock that followed 00:11:14.980 --> 00:11:18.120 them, and that rock was Christ. But with most 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:20.960 of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:23.750 were scattered in the wilderness. Now these things 00:11:23.750 --> 00:11:27.250 became our examples, to the intent that we should 00:11:27.250 --> 00:11:30.490 not lust after evil things, as they also lusted, 00:11:30.690 --> 00:11:33.490 and do not become idolaters, as were some of 00:11:33.490 --> 00:11:36.210 them. As it is written, the people sat down to 00:11:36.210 --> 00:11:39.850 eat and drink, and rose up to play. Nor let us 00:11:39.850 --> 00:11:42.169 commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, 00:11:42.350 --> 00:11:46.250 and in one day twenty -three thousand fell. Nor 00:11:46.250 --> 00:11:49.250 let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, 00:11:49.450 --> 00:11:52.159 and were destroyed by serpents. nor complain 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:55.299 as some of them also complained and were destroyed 00:11:55.299 --> 00:11:58.960 by the destroyer. Now all these things happened 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:01.799 to them as examples, and they were written for 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:04.879 our admonition upon whom the ends of the ages 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:08.639 have come. Therefore let him who thinks he stands 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:12.580 take heed lest he fall. No temptation has overtaken 00:12:12.580 --> 00:12:15.820 you except such as is common to man. But God 00:12:15.820 --> 00:12:18.419 is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted 00:12:18.419 --> 00:12:21.370 beyond what you are able, but with the temptation 00:12:21.370 --> 00:12:24.230 will also make the way of escape that you may 00:12:24.230 --> 00:12:27.830 be able to bear it. Therefore, my beloved, flee 00:12:27.830 --> 00:12:31.710 from idolatry. I speak as to wise men. Judge 00:12:31.710 --> 00:12:34.370 for yourselves what I say. The cup of blessing 00:12:34.370 --> 00:12:37.049 which we bless, is it not the communion of the 00:12:37.049 --> 00:12:39.870 blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is 00:12:39.870 --> 00:12:42.850 it not the communion of the body of Christ? For 00:12:42.850 --> 00:12:45.710 we, though many, are one bread and one body. 00:12:46.029 --> 00:12:49.710 For we all partake of that one bread. Observe 00:12:49.710 --> 00:12:53.129 Israel after the flesh. Are not those who eat 00:12:53.129 --> 00:12:56.309 of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? What 00:12:56.309 --> 00:12:59.429 am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or 00:12:59.429 --> 00:13:02.250 what is offered to idols is anything? Rather, 00:13:02.409 --> 00:13:04.809 that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, 00:13:05.149 --> 00:13:08.389 they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And 00:13:08.389 --> 00:13:10.509 I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:14.059 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the 00:13:14.059 --> 00:13:16.580 cup of demons. You cannot partake of the Lord's 00:13:16.580 --> 00:13:19.700 table and of the table of demons. Or do we provoke 00:13:19.700 --> 00:13:22.320 the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:25.639 All things are lawful for me but not all things 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:28.500 are helpful. All things are lawful for me but 00:13:28.500 --> 00:13:32.139 not all things edify. Let no one seeks his own 00:13:32.139 --> 00:13:36.039 but each one the other's well -being. Eat whatever 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:38.639 is sold in the meat market. asking no questions 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:41.820 for conscience's sake, for the earth is the Lord's 00:13:41.820 --> 00:13:44.519 and all its fullness. If any of those who do 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:47.200 not believe invites you to dinner and you desire 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:50.200 to go, eat whatever is said before you, asking 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:53.440 no question for conscience's sake. But if anyone 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:56.360 says to you, this was offered to idols, do not 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:59.820 eat it for the sake of the one who told you and 00:13:59.820 --> 00:14:02.980 for conscience's sake, for the earth is the Lord's 00:14:02.980 --> 00:14:06.159 and all its fullness. Conscience, I say. not 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:09.360 your own, but that of the other. For why is my 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:12.539 liberty judged by another man's conscience? But 00:14:12.539 --> 00:14:15.860 if I partake with thanks, why am I evil spoken 00:14:15.860 --> 00:14:19.879 of for the food over which I give thanks? Therefore, 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:22.659 whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, 00:14:22.779 --> 00:14:26.480 do all to the glory of God. Give no offense either 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:29.360 to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the Church 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:32.820 of God, just as I also please all men in all 00:14:32.820 --> 00:14:35.840 things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:44.000 of many, that they may be saved. Imitate me just 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:47.759 as I also imitate Christ. Now I praise you, brethren, 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:50.279 that you remember me in all things and keep the 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:53.639 traditions just as I delivered them to you. But 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:56.080 I want you to know, that the head of every man 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:59.059 is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the 00:14:59.059 --> 00:15:03.320 head of Christ is God. Every man praying or prophesying, 00:15:03.379 --> 00:15:06.440 having his head covered, dishonors his head. 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:09.899 But every woman who prays and prophesies with 00:15:09.899 --> 00:15:13.120 her head uncovered, dishonors her head, for that 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:16.200 is one and the same as if her head were shaved. 00:15:16.580 --> 00:15:19.799 For if a woman is not covered, let her also be 00:15:19.799 --> 00:15:22.840 shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:26.360 shorn or shaved, let her be covered. For a man 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:29.059 indeed ought not to cover his head, since he 00:15:29.059 --> 00:15:32.860 is the image and glory of God. But woman is the 00:15:32.860 --> 00:15:35.779 glory of man. For man is not from woman, but 00:15:35.779 --> 00:15:38.980 woman from man. Nor was man created for the woman, 00:15:39.139 --> 00:15:42.080 but woman for the man. For this reason the woman 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:45.120 ought to have a symbol of authority on her head 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:48.159 because of the angels. Nevertheless, neither 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:51.480 is man independent of woman, nor woman independent 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:55.080 of man in the Lord. For as woman came from man, 00:15:55.259 --> 00:15:58.580 even so man also comes through woman, but all 00:15:58.580 --> 00:16:01.580 things are from God. Judge among yourselves. 00:16:02.019 --> 00:16:04.659 Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with 00:16:04.659 --> 00:16:07.740 her head uncovered? Does not even nature itself 00:16:07.740 --> 00:16:10.899 teach you that if a man has long hair, it is 00:16:10.899 --> 00:16:13.820 a dishonor to him, but if a woman has long hair, 00:16:13.980 --> 00:16:17.159 it is a glory to her? for her hair is given to 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:20.299 her for a covering. But if anyone seems to be 00:16:20.299 --> 00:16:23.360 contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:26.759 churches of God. Now in giving these instructions, 00:16:26.899 --> 00:16:29.379 I do not praise you, since you come together 00:16:29.379 --> 00:16:32.539 not for the better, but for the worse. For first 00:16:32.539 --> 00:16:35.460 of all, when you come together as a church, I 00:16:35.460 --> 00:16:37.960 hear that there are divisions among you. And 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:40.980 in part I believe it. For there must also be 00:16:40.980 --> 00:16:43.679 factions among you that those who are approved 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:47.179 may be recognized among you. Therefore, when 00:16:47.179 --> 00:16:49.519 you come together in one place, it is not to 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:52.299 eat the Lord's supper. For in eating, each one 00:16:52.299 --> 00:16:55.039 takes his own supper ahead of others, and one 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:58.220 is hungry and another is drunk. What, do you 00:16:58.220 --> 00:17:01.259 not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you 00:17:01.259 --> 00:17:04.019 despise the church of God and shame those who 00:17:04.019 --> 00:17:06.680 have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:10.140 I praise you in this? I do not praise you. For 00:17:10.140 --> 00:17:13.059 I received from the Lord that which I also delivered 00:17:13.059 --> 00:17:15.980 to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the same night 00:17:15.980 --> 00:17:18.960 in which he was betrayed, took bread, and when 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:22.599 he had given thanks, he broke it and said, Take, 00:17:22.619 --> 00:17:25.160 eat, this is my body which is broken for you. 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:28.410 Do this in remembrance of me. In the same manner, 00:17:28.509 --> 00:17:31.289 he also took the cup after supper, saying, This 00:17:31.289 --> 00:17:34.269 cup is the new covenant in my blood. This do 00:17:34.269 --> 00:17:37.109 as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. 00:17:37.269 --> 00:17:39.589 For as often as you eat this bread and drink 00:17:39.589 --> 00:17:42.309 this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till 00:17:42.309 --> 00:17:45.650 he comes. Therefore, whoever eats this bread 00:17:45.650 --> 00:17:48.910 or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy 00:17:48.910 --> 00:17:51.549 manner, will be guilty of the body and blood 00:17:51.549 --> 00:17:54.950 of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and 00:17:54.950 --> 00:17:57.490 so let him eat of the bread and drink of the 00:17:57.490 --> 00:18:00.410 cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy 00:18:00.410 --> 00:18:03.670 manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not 00:18:03.670 --> 00:18:06.509 discerning the Lord's body. For this reason, 00:18:06.589 --> 00:18:09.309 many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. 00:18:09.569 --> 00:18:12.329 For if we would judge ourselves, we would not 00:18:12.329 --> 00:18:15.710 be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened 00:18:15.710 --> 00:18:18.910 by the Lord. that we may not be condemned with 00:18:18.910 --> 00:18:22.009 the world. Therefore, my brethren, when you come 00:18:22.009 --> 00:18:24.829 together to eat, wait for one another. But if 00:18:24.829 --> 00:18:27.789 anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you 00:18:27.789 --> 00:18:30.230 come together for judgment, and the rest I will 00:18:30.230 --> 00:18:37.869 set in order when I come. I hope you enjoyed 00:18:37.869 --> 00:18:40.210 today's reading as much as I did, and I look 00:18:40.210 --> 00:18:42.150 forward to seeing you again tomorrow to continue 00:18:42.150 --> 00:18:44.349 on our journey. God bless you and have a great 00:18:44.349 --> 00:18:44.609 day.