grace and peace be with you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

for from him it is that ye believe in Christ Jesus, whom God has made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that,

now the spirit which we have received, is not the spirit of this world, but that which comes from God; that we might know what he has graciously bestowed upon us.

therefore suspend your judgment till the Lord comes, who will bring to light the secrets of darkness, and expose the counsels of mens hearts: and then shall every man have his due reward from God.

to this very day we suffer both hunger, thirst, and penury: we are buffeted from place to place, as vagabonds:

we have it from all quarters, that incest is practis'd among you, and such as is not among the Gentiles, that of a man's having his father's wife.

those that are without, God will judge. therefore expel the libertine from your community.

what! know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the holy spirit, which is in you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

for I wish that all men were as I myself am: but every man hath his proper gift from God, some one way, and some another.

as to the married, I enjoin this rule, not as from my self, but from the Lord, that a woman should not leave her husband:

have you been redeemed from slavery? then, don't turn slaves.

As to the case of celibacy, I have no positive instructions: yet my advice deserves to be regarded, as coming from one the divine favour has distinguished.

are you contracted to a wife? seek not to be disengag'd. are you disengag'd from your wife? don't look out for another;

and they that possess this world, as those that can't make an ill use of it. for the scene of this world is continually shifting. I would have you free from anxiety.

yet to us there is but one God, the father, from whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

if for your benefit we have sown spirituals, is it so extraordinary if we should reap some benefit from your temporals?

don't you know, that they who prepare the sacrifices, do eat of the sacrifice in the temple? and they who wait at the altar, have their portion from the altar?

whence then is my reward? why, from my preaching the gospel of Christ gratis, without making use of the privilege which the gospel gives me.

and all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of what flowed from the spiritual rock: and that rock was Christ.)

now these things were examples to deter us from longing after things that are pernicious, as they did.

wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

A man ought not to be veil'd: he has the honour of being invested with authority from God, and may glory in his priority to the woman.

for the man was not taken from the woman: but the woman from the man.

nor was the man copied from the woman: but the woman from the man.

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

For I received it from the Lord, and I inform'd you of it: that the Lord Jesus, the night in which he was betrayed, took bread:

What, did the gospel take its rise from you? or was it communicated to you alone?

Now if it has been declared, that Christ rose from the dead, how comes it, that some among you assert, "there is no resurrection of the dead?"

rouze from your sins, as is but just; for some of you have not the knowledge of God: I speak it to your shame.

the glory of the sun is of one kind, the glory of the moon of another, and the glory of the stars still different; nay, one star differs from another star in glory.

the first man was formed from the dust of the earth: the second man was from heaven.

let all your transactions flow from social affections.