For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

Therefore let any one who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,

In the same way he took the cup also after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."