Am I not free? am I not an Apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are you not my work in the Lord?

For this reason tongues are for a sign, not to those who have faith, but to those who have not: but the prophet's word is for those who have faith, and not for the rest who have not.

For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:

More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?

But to the rest I say, and not the Lord; If a brother has a wife who is not a Christian, and it is her desire to go on living with him, let him not go away from her.

For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.

If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.

But if any man will not be ruled in this question, this is not our way of doing things, and it is not done in the churches of God.