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For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.

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.

Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.

For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father"s sakes.

For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?

And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.

For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: