Give No Offence

Written by Deb Hurn |

The directions of 1 Cor 11 are in the context of 10:32-33: “Give no offence, either to the Jews, or to the Greeks, or to the church of God”. Jewish observers of Christian meetings would have been offended by women praying and prophesying with bare heads and unbound hair. Gentile observers would have been offended by men praying and prophesying under shawls, as in a synagogue. Fellow Christians could have been disturbed by signs of impropriety, such as cross-gender hair-lengths. Paul urges the Corinthian believers to strive to please all people in everything “that they may be saved”.


	Give No Offence Deb Hurn 2007 5 Pages, 53 KB

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