Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age??here are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world?

Even to his very hour we are enduring hunger and thirst and nakedness and blows.

When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when defamed, we conciliate. We have been made, as it were, scum-o'-the-earth, the very refuse of the world, to this very hour!

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body? (For God says, The two shall become one flesh.)

but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

Let the husband give his wife her due, and likewise the wife her husband. The wife is not mistress of her own person,

but her husband is; and in the same way the husband is not master of his own person, but his wife is.

But to those already married my commandment is??nd not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to leave her husband;

(or if she has already left him let her either remain as she is, or be reconciled to him), and also that a husband is not to put away his wife.

To the rest it is I who am speaking, not the Lord. If any brother has a wife who is not a believer, if he is willing to live with her, let him not send her away.

And a woman whose husband is not a believer, if he is willing to live with her, let her not separate from him.

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through union with his believing wife; and the unbelieving wife, through union with her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but now they are consecrated to God.

Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.

If, however, a father feels that he is not treating his virgin daughter in a seemly manner, in leaving her unmarried beyond the flower of her age, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin. Let the marriage take place.

So he that gives his daughter in marriage is doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing better.

A wife is bound to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is free to marry whomever she will, provided it be in the Lord.

But I wish you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and of a wife her husband is head; and that God is head of Christ.

but every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head (her husband). for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

If a woman does not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair; now if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her be veiled.

For this reason the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of her guardian angels.

Judge of this for your own selves. It is fitting that a woman should pray to God with her head unveiled.

Nor does nature itself teach you that it is a disgrace to a man to have long hair,

but it is woman's glory, because her hair has been given her instead of a veil.

Yes, and why am I myself exposed to danger every hour?