I do not write these things shaming you, but I warn you as my beloved children.

What do ye want? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with fornicators,

But now I write to you not to associate if any man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or a greedy man, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator, not even to eat with such kind.

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

The wife has not the right of her private body, but the husband, and likewise also the husband has not the right of his private body, but the wife.

Have we no, not a right to eat and to drink?

Have we no, not a right to lead about a sister wife, as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or have only I and Barnabas no right not to be occupied earning a living?

If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ.

But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.

What then is my reward? That, while preaching the good-news, I may make the good-news of the Christ without charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the good-news.

If any man presumes to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge what I write to you, that they are commandments of Lord.