Let no one of you deceive himself. If any one of you imagines that he is wiser than the rest of you, in what this world calls wisdom, he had better become a fool, so as to become really wise.

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.

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be on fire with passion.

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

But food is not going to affect our standing with God. We are none the worse if we do not eat it, and none the better if we do.

If others enjoy such rights over you, have we not a still better claim? But, you say, we have never availed ourselves of this right. No, we will stand anything rather than put any hindrance in the way of the good news of the Christ.

I will show you a far better way. If I can speak the languages of men and even of angels, but have no love, I am only a noisy gong or a clashing cymbal.