For even to this present hour we undergo hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are buffeted about, and have no settled abode;

If then ye have disputes about the things of this life, do you seat those on the bench who are least esteemed in the church?

and they who weep as though they wept not; and they who rejoice as though they rejoiced not; and they that purchase as though they possessed not;

but he who is married is anxious about the things of the world, how he shall please his wife.

A wife and a virgin hath different pursuits: the unmarried woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

Have we not power to carry about with us a sister wife, as do also the other apostles, even the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Know ye not that they who are employed about the holy things, are fed from the temple? and they who serve at the altar, partake with the altar?

But if any man mean to be contentious about it, we have no such custom, nor the churches of God.