for of nothing to myself have I been conscious, but not in this have I been declared right -- and he who is discerning me is the Lord:

Not as putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,

what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?

I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers --

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with him, if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- with such a one not even to eat together;

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good it is for a man not to touch a woman,

And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for it is good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;

if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you -- that of the Lord they are commands;

awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say it.