For the preaching of the cross is to those who are perishing, foolishness, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.

and labor, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it;

being slandered, we exhort; we have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

Was any one called being circumcised, let him not become as if uncircumcised; hath any one been called in uncircumcision, let him not become circumcised.

Wast thou called being a slave, care not for it; but even if thou canst be made free, use it rather.

For he that was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lords freeman. In like manner the freeman, who is called, is Christs slave.

But if any one thinketh that he behaveth improperly in respect to his virgin [daughter], if she pass the flower of her age [without being married], and if it must be so, let him do what he will, he committeth no sin; let them marry.

But there is not in all men this knowledge; for some, with a conscience directed toward the idol even now, eat of it as a thing offered in sacrifice to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

For being free from all men, yet I made myself a servant to all, that I might gain the more;

and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under the Law, as under the Law, not being myself under the Law, that I might gain those under the Law;

to those without the Law, as without the Law, being not without a law before God, but under the law of Christ, that I might gain those without the Law;

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so it is with Christ.