Which do you want? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in a loving and tender spirit?

So I want you to be free from all anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's business, how he may please the Lord;

On the contrary, what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have communion with demons.

Wherefore I want you to understand that no one who speaks in the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except in the Holy Spirit.

And if they want to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a women to speak in church."

I beg you this, my brothers??ou know the household of Stephanus, that they were the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they devoted themselves to the service of the saints??16 so I want you also to show deference to such, and to every fellow worker, and laborer.