Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough, since you are to be free from yeast. For the Messiah, our Passover, has been sacrificed.

However, if they cannot control themselves, they should get married, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Was anyone circumcised when he was called? He should not try to change that. Was anyone uncircumcised when he was called? He should not get circumcised.

Have you become committed to a wife? Stop trying to get released from your commitment. Have you been freed from your commitment to a wife? Stop looking for one.

But if you do get married, you have not sinned. And if a virgin gets married, she has not sinned. However, these people will experience trouble in this life, and I want to spare you from that.

If a man thinks he is not behaving properly toward his virgin, and if his passion is so strong that he feels he ought to marry her, let him do what he wants; he isn't sinning. Let them get married.

You know that those who work in the Temple get their food from the Temple and that those who serve at the altar get their share of its offerings, don't you?

For if I preach voluntarily, I get a reward, but if I am unwilling to do it, I am still entrusted with that obligation.

For as you eat, each of you rushes to eat his own supper, and one person goes hungry while another gets drunk.

and she is never rude; she never thinks just of herself or ever gets annoyed. She never is resentful;

For example, if a bugle doesn't sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle?

If I have fought with wild animals in Ephesus from merely human motives, what do I get out of it? If the dead are not raised, "Let's eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."