So I beg you not to lose heart over the sorrows that I am suffering for your sake, for they bring you honor.

for in their recklessness they have abandoned themselves to sensuality which leads to excessive practices of all sorts of immorality.

You must stop letting any bad word pass your lips, but only words that are good for building up as the occasion demands, so that they will result in spiritual blessing to the hearers.

there must be no indecency, silly talk or suggestive jesting, for they are unbecoming. There should be thanksgiving instead.

This is the way married men ought to love their wives, as they do their own bodies. The married man who loves his wife is really loving himself,

not serving them as though they were watching you, but as true slaves of Christ, trying to carry out the will of God.