for, although I am not conscious of having anything against me, that does not clear me. It is the Lord who cross-questions me on the matter.

For God's Reign does not show itself in talk but in power.

Thus both are right alike in marrying and in refraining from marriage, but he who does not marry will be found to have done better.

Whoever imagines he has attained to some degree of knowledge, does not possess the true knowledge yet;

But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak.

Does a soldier provide his own supplies? Does a man plant a vineyard without eating its produce? Does a shepherd get no drink from the milk of the flock?

Human arguments, you say? But does not Scripture urge the very same?

Man does not require to have a veil on his head, for he represents the likeness and supremacy of God; but woman represents the supremacy of man.

(Of course, in the Lord, woman does not exist apart from man, any more than man apart from woman;

If the foot were to say, 'Because I am not the hand, I do not belong to the body,' that does not make it no part of the body.

If the ear were to say, 'Because I am not the eye, I do not belong to the body,' that does not make it no part of the body.

which does not need to be paid to our more decorous parts. Yes, God has tempered the body together, with a special dignity for the inferior parts,

Otherwise, suppose you are blessing God in the Spirit, how is the outsider to say 'Amen' to your thanksgiving? The man does not understand what you are saying!