The merely intellectual man rejects the teaching of the Spirit of God; for to him it is mere folly; he cannot grasp it, because it is to be understood only by spiritual insight.

There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles-a man, I hear, is living with his father's wife!

But, if they cannot control themselves, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to be consumed with passion.

You cannot drink both the Cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake at the Table of the Lord and at the table of demons.

In giving directions on the next subject, I cannot praise you; because your meetings do more harm than good.

Have you no houses in which you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show your contempt for the Church of God, and to humiliate the poor? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this matter I cannot praise you.

The eye cannot say to the hand 'I do not need you,' nor, again, the head to the feet 'I do not need you.'

Love is long-suffering, and kind; Love is never envious, never boastful, never conceited, never behaves unbecomingly;