I write not these things to shame you, but I am warning you as my beloved children.

What will ye? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in love, and the spirit of mildness?

I wrote to you in that letter, not to keep company with fornicators;

But this is what I wrote you, not to keep company with any one called a brother, if he be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not even to eat.

Now as to the matters about which ye wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman;

Have we not a right to eat and drink?

Have we not a right to carry about with us a sister as a wife, as well as the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

If others possess this right in relation to you, do not we still more? But we have not used this right; but we submit to all things, that we may occasion no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

But I have used no right of this kind; nor have I written thus that anything of this kind should be done for me; for it were better for me to die, than that any one should take from me what I glory in.

What then is my reward? It is that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel free of charge, that I use not to the full my right as a preacher of the gospel.