Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute makes one body with her? For "The two," says the Scripture, "shall become physically one."

But there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.

The husband must give his wife what is due her, and the wife must do the same by her husband.

A wife cannot do as she likes with her own person; it is her husband's; and in the same way a husband cannot do as he likes with his own person; it is his wife's.

To those already married my instructions are??nd they are not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to separate from her husband.

To other people I would say, though not as Christ's command, if a Christian has a wife who is not a believer, and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her,

and a woman who has a husband who is not a believer, but is willing to live with her, must not divorce her husband.

For the husband who is not a believer is consecrated through union with his wife, and the woman who is not a believer is consecrated through union with her Christian husband, for otherwise your children would be unblessed, but, as it is, they are consecrated.

An unmarried woman or a girl is concerned about the Lord's work, so as to be consecrated in body and spirit, but the woman who marries is concerned with worldly affairs, and how she can please her husband.

But a man who has definitely made up his mind, under no constraint of passion but with full self-control, and who has decided in his own mind to keep her as she is, will be doing what is right.

So the man who marries her does what is right, and the man who refrains from doing so does even better.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she pleases so long as he is a Christian.

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, while a woman's head is her husband, and Christ's head is God.

and any woman who offers prayer or explains the will of God bareheaded disgraces her head, for it is just as though she had her head shaved.

For if a woman will not wear a veil, let her cut off her hair too. But if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her wear a veil.

That is why she ought to wear upon her head something to symbolize her subjection, out of respect to the angels, if to nobody else.

Judge for yourselves. Is it proper for a woman to offer prayer to God with nothing on her head?

Does not nature itself teach you that for a man to wear his hair long is degrading,

but a woman's long hair is her pride? For her hair is given her as a covering.

For, in the first place, when you meet as a congregation, I hear that you divide into sets, and in a measure I believe it.

If all the body were eye, how would we hear? If it were all ear, how could we have a sense of smell?

But you must cultivate the higher endowments.

Why do we ourselves run such risks every hour?

From the human point of view, what good is it to me that I have fought wild animals here in Ephesus? If the dead do not rise at all, "Let us eat and drink, for we will be dead tomorrow!"

for I have a great and promising opportunity here, as well as many opponents.

And I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus have come here, for they have made up for your absence.