For I had determined that, while with you, I would know nothing but Jesus Christ-and him crucified!

This philosophy is not known to any of the leaders of to-day; for, had they known it, they would not have crucified our glorified Lord.

Are you all so soon satisfied? Are you so soon rich? Have you begun to reign without us? Would indeed that you had, so that we also might reign with you!

Not, of course, meaning men of the world who are in immoral, or who are covetous and grasping, or who worship idols; for then you would have to leave the world altogether.

With reference to the subjects about which you wrote to me: It would be well for a man to remain single.

My advice, then, to those who are not married, and to widows, is this: It would be well for them to remain as I am myself.

For, through his wife, the husband who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ's People; and the wife who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ's People through our Brother whom she has married. Otherwise your children would be 'defiled,' but, as it is, they belong to Christ's People.

I, however, have not availed myself of any of these rights. I am not saying this to secure such an arrangement for myself; indeed, I would far rather die-Nobody shall make my boast a vain one!

If all the body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If it were all hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

If, however, they all made up only one part, where would the body be?

But at a meeting of the Church I would rather speak five words with my mind, and so teach others, than ten thousand words when using the gift of 'tongues.'

Next, Brothers, I would remind you of the Good News which I told you, and which you received-the Good News on which you have taken your stand,

And by means of which you are being saved. I would remind you of the very words that I used in telling it to you, since you are still holding fast to it, and since it was not in vain that you became believers in Christ.