for as God hath raised up the Lord, so will he likewise raise us up to partake of his own power.

Now as to the question you writ to me about; "whether it is best for a man not to marry?"

I answer, with regard to the licentious, it is best for a man, to have his wife; and for a woman to have her husband.

don't desert one another, unless you mutually consent to retire for a time, to the solemnity of prayer; and then come together again, lest satan make an attempt upon your continency.

I think therefore it is best, considering the present distress, I say, it is best, for a single person to continue so still.

Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not you become christians by my labour?

for as the woman was taken from the man, so man is born of the woman: and all are from God.

Be you yourselves judges: is it decent for a woman to pray to God without a veil?

does not settled custom show it is a shame for a man to have long hair?

For as the body is one, tho' it has many members, and all the members of that one body, tho' many, are one body: so also is the body of Christ.

wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers: but expounding the prophets, not for unbelievers so much as for those who believe.

for as by Adam all die, even so by Christ shall all be restored to life.

for as we have born the image of the terrestrial, so we shall bear the image of the celestial.