1 Corinthians 11:16
But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.
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- 1 Cor 7:17 : 17 Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
- Acts 21:24 : 24 Take them, and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.
- 1 Thess 2:14 : 14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;
- 1 Tim 6:3-4 : 3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, 4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
- Acts 21:21 : 21 They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.
- 1 Cor 14:33-34 : 33 for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints, 34 let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.
- 1 Cor 16:1 : 1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.
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11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
12 For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.
13 Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?
14 Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.
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17 But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.
18 For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
19 For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
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3 But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.
6 For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.
7 For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.
8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man;
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33 for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,
34 let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.
35 If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the assembly.
36 What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?
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10 Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
11 For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.
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32 Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;
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17 Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
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6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
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6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
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6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
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24 whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part,
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31 For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.
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14 If any man doesn't obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
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12 If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
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22 What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.
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16 If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.
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24 Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.
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11 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.
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8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
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3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
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1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
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16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;
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20 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.
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3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?
4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?
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26 Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
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22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
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9 In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;
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6 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.
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34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.
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17 Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
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13 Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.
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3 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
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5 I say this to move you to shame. Isn't there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?