Now it is required of servant managers that each one should prove to be trustworthy.

It is a very small thing to me that I should be examined by you or by any human court. In fact, I don't even evaluate myself.

Which do you prefer? Should I come to you with a stick, or with love and a gentle spirit?

You know that your bodies belong to the Messiah, don't you? Should I take what belongs to the Messiah and unite them with a prostitute? Certainly not!

Because sexual immorality is so rampant, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband.

A husband should fulfill his obligation to his wife, and a wife should do the same for her husband.

Do not withhold yourselves from each other unless you agree to do so just for a set time, in order to devote yourselves to prayer. Then you should come together again so that Satan does not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

However, if they cannot control themselves, they should get married, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Nevertheless, everyone should live the life that the Lord gave him and to which God called him. This is my rule in all the churches.

Was anyone circumcised when he was called? He should not try to change that. Was anyone uncircumcised when he was called? He should not get circumcised.

Everyone should stay in the same condition in which he was called.

Brothers, everyone should stay in the same condition in which he was called by God.

This is what I mean, brothers: The time is short. From now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none,

Isn't he really speaking for our benefit? Yes, this was written for our benefit, because the one who plows should plow in hope, and the one who threshes should thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.

In the same way, the Lord has ordered that those who proclaim the gospel should make their living from the gospel.

Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing securely should watch out so he doesn't fall.

No one should seek his own welfare, but rather his neighbor's.

I mean, of course, his conscience, not yours. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else's conscience?

If I eat with thankfulness, why should I be denounced because of what I am thankful for?

So if a woman does not cover her head, she should cut off her hair. If it is a disgrace for a woman to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her own head.

A man should not cover his head, because he exists as God's image and glory. But the woman is man's glory.

This is why a woman should have authority over her own head: because of the angels.

You have homes in which to eat and drink, don't you? Or do you despise God's church and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!

If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you gather it may not bring judgment on you. And when I come I will give instructions concerning the other matters.

so that there might be no disharmony in the body, but that its parts should have the same concern for each other.

Therefore, the person who speaks in a foreign language should pray for the ability to interpret it.

If anyone speaks in a foreign language, only two or three at the most should do so, one at a time, and somebody must interpret.

If an interpreter is not present, the speaker should remain silent in the church and speak to himself and God.

Two or three prophets should speak, and others should weigh carefully what is said.

If a revelation is made to another person who is seated, the first person should be silent.

If they want to learn anything, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is inappropriate for a woman to speak out in church.

But if anyone ignores this, he should be ignored.

Come back to your senses as you should, and stop sinning! For some of you I say this to your shame don't fully know God.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, you should follow the directions I gave to the churches in Galatia.

After the Sabbath ends, each of you should set aside and save something from your surplus in proportion to what you have, so that no collections will have to be made when I arrive.

Therefore, no one should treat him with contempt. Send him on his way in peace so that he may come to me, because I am expecting him along with the brothers.

Everything you do should be done lovingly.