Now in this matter of trustees the first and final requirement is that they should prove to be trustworthy.

but because of so much sexual immorality every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.

However, I should like for everyone to be just as I am myself, yet each of us has his own special gift from God, one for one way, another for another.

I mean this, brothers. The time has been cut short. For the future, men who have wives should live as though they had none,

No one should always be looking after his own welfare, but also that of his neighbor.

I mean his conscience, not yours. Why then should my personal freedom be limited by another's conscience?

A man, then, must examine himself, and only in this way should he eat any of the bread and drink from the cup.

If I should have the gift of prophecy, And know all secret truths, and knowledge in its every form, and have such perfect faith that I could move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.

If I should dole out everything I have for charity, and give my body up to torture in mere boasting pride, but have no love, I get from it no good at all.

So if I do not know the meaning of the language, I should be a foreigner to the man who speaks it, and he would be a foreigner to me.

If they want to find out about something, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.