It is generally reported that there is lewdness among you; and such lewdness as is not even mentioned among the Gentiles that a certain one has his father's wife.

Do you not know that we will judge angels, not to mention ordinary matters?

I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.

but if any man say to you, this is offered in sacrifice to an idol, don't eat, for his sake that mentioned it, and for conscience sake.

Neither should we commit sexual immorality as some of them did, [with] 23,000 people falling dead in one day. [Note: Num. 25:9 mentions 24,000 people slain, but that number could have included the additional people slain by the judges. See Num. 25:5].

But I praise you not in this, which I now mention, that you come together, not for the better, but for the worse.