And it says again-'The Lord sees how fruitless are the deliberations of the wise.'

Are you married to a wife? Then do not seek to be separated. Are you separated from a wife? Then do not seek for a wife.

And those who use the good things of the world as using them sparingly; for this world as we see it is passing away.

For if some one should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is a weak man, become so hardened that he, too, will eat food offered to idols?

Am I not free? Am I not an Apostle? Have I not seen our Lord Jesus? Are not you yourselves my work achieved in union with the Lord?

Since we, then, sowed spiritual seed for you, is it too much that we should reap from you an earthly harvest?

No! Those parts of the body that seem naturally the weaker are indispensable;

As yet we see, in a mirror, dimly, but then-face to face! As yet my knowledge is incomplete, but then I shall know in full, as I have been fully known.

Seek this Love earnestly, and strive for spiritual gifts, above all for the gift of preaching.

You foolish man! The seed you yourself sow does not come to life, unless it dies!

God gives it the body that he pleases-to each seed its special body.

No one, therefore, should slight him. See him safely on his way to me, for I am expecting him with some of our Brothers.