1 Corinthians 7:40
However, she is happier if she remains as she is; that is my opinion ??and I suppose I have the Spirit of God as well as other people!
1 Corinthians 7:1
Now about the questions in your letter. It is an excellent thing for a man to have no intercourse with a woman;
1 Corinthians 7:6
But what I have just said is by way of concession, not command.
1 Corinthians 7:8
To the unmarried and to widows I would say this: it is an excellent thing if like me they remain as they are.
1 Corinthians 7:25-26
I have no orders from the Lord for unmarried women, but I will give you the opinion of one whom you can trust, after all the Lord's mercy to him.
1 Corinthians 7:35
I am saying this in your own interests. Not that I want to restrict your freedom. It is only to secure decorum and concentration upon a life of devotion to the Lord.
1 Corinthians 9:1-3
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the work I have accomplished in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 14:36-37
You challenge this rule? Pray, did God's word start from you? Are you the only people it has reached?
2 Corinthians 10:8-10
Even supposing I were to boast somewhat freely of my authority (and the Lord gave it to me for building you up, not for demolishing you), I would feel quite justified.
2 Corinthians 12:11
Now this is playing the fool! But you forced me to it, instead of coming forward yourselves and vouching for me. That was what I deserved; for, 'nobody' as I am, I am not one whit inferior to these precious 'apostles.'
1 Thessalonians 4:8
hence, he who disregards this, disregards not man but the God who gave you his holy Spirit.
2 Peter 3:15-16
And consider that the longsuffering of our Lord means salvation; as indeed our beloved brother Paul has written to you out of the wisdom vouchsafed to him,