For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

But I say this, believers: the time has been shortened, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they did not;

But now of course there are many body-parts, but one body.

No, on the contrary, even those parts of the body that seem to be most delicate are indispensable,

Yet even lifeless things, whether flute or harp, when producing a sound, if they do not produce distinct [musical] tones, how will anyone [listening] know what is piped or played?

O Death, where is your victory now? O Death, where is your sting?"

For it is not my desire to see you now, on my way; because it is my hope to be with you for some time, if that is the Lord's pleasure.