For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?

Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.

So then, he who gets married to his virgin does well, and he who keeps her unmarried does better.

But it will be better for her to keep as she is, in my opinion: and it seems to me that I have the Spirit of God.

But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

But in giving you this order, there is one thing about which I am not pleased: it is that when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.

But let your desires be turned to the more important things given by the Spirit. And now I am pointing out to you an even better way.

But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.