None of the Powers of this world understands it (if they had, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory).

God will destroy anyone who would destroy God's temple, for God's temple is sacred ??and that is what you are.

I did not mean you were literally to avoid contact with the immoral in this world, with the lustful and the thievish, or with idolaters; in that case you would have to leave the world altogether.

I would like all men to be as I am. However, everyone is endowed by God in his own way; he has a gift for the one life or the other.

To the unmarried and to widows I would say this: it is an excellent thing if like me they remain as they are.

To other people I would say (not the Lord): ??if any brother has a wife who is not a believer, and if she consents to live with him, he must not put her away;

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated in the person of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated in the person of the Christian brother she has married; otherwise, of course, your children would be unholy instead of being consecrated to God.

Well, what I think is this: that, considering the imminent distress in these days, it would be an excellent plan for you to remain just as you are.

Of course, if you are actually married, there is no sin in that; and if a maid marries, there is no sin in that. (At the same time those who marry will have outward trouble ??and I would spare you that.)

Only, I have not availed myself of any of these rights, and I am not writing in order to secure any such provision for myself. I would die sooner than let anyone deprive me of this, my source of pride.

For I would have you know this, my brothers, that while our fathers all lived under the cloud, all crossed through the sea,

But I would like you to understand this: Christ is the head of every man, man is the head of woman, and God is the head of Christ.

If we only judged our own lives truly, we would not come under the Lord's judgment.

If the body were all eye, where would hearing be? If the body were all ear, where would smell be?

If they all made up one member, what would become of the body?

Now I would like you all to speak with 'tongues,' but I would prefer you to prophesy. The man who prophesies is higher than the man who speaks with 'tongues' ??unless indeed the latter interprets, so that the church may get edification.

but in church I would rather say five words with my own mind for the instruction of other people than ten thousand words in a 'tongue.'

Now, brothers, I would have you know the gospel I once preached to you, the gospel you received, the gospel in which you have your footing,

What would it avail me that, humanly speaking, I 'fought with wild beasts' at Ephesus? If dead men do not rise, let us eat and drink, for we will be dead to-morrow!