but if she leave him, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and, let not the husband put away his wife.

But to the rest, I, and not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she is well pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

And if any woman has a husband that believes not, and he is well pleased to dwell with her, let her not put him away.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; for if not, then are your children unclean; but now they are holy.

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart; the brother or sister is not bound in such cases. But God has called us to live in peace.

Has any one been called that had been circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the mark of circumcision. Has any one been called that had not been circumcised? Let him not be circumcised,

Were you a servant when you were called? Care not for it. But if you can become free, rather enjoy your freedom.

You have been bought with a price; become not the servants of men.

Are you bound to a wife? Seek not a separation. Are you loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

But if you should marry, you would not sin. And if a virgin should marry, she would not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh. But I spare you.

Now, this I say, brethren, the time is fraught with trials. It remains that those who have wives be as though they had them not;

and those who weep, as though they wept not; and those who rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those who buy, as though they possessed not:

and those who use this world, as not abusing it; for the outward show of this world passes away.

I speak this for your own profit; not that I would entangle you, but that you may decorously and devotedly wait upon the Lord, without distraction.

But if any man thinks he would treat his virgin daughter amiss, should she pass the bloom of life, and it is necessary that it should be so, let him do as he pleases, he does not sin; let them (the suitor and the daughter) marry.

So then, even he that gives her in marriage, does well; but he that gives her not in marriage, does better.

But all have not this knowledge; for some, under the persuasion that an idol is a reality, even yet eat meat, as if it were offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak, is defiled.

But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse.

For, if any one see you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened, so that he will eat meats offered to idols?

and will not the weak brother, for whom Christ died, perish through your knowledge?

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord-? Are you not my work in the Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, yet certainly I am to you; for the seal of my apostleship are you in the Lord.

Have we not the right to eat and drink?

Have we not the right to lead about a sister wife, as the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

What man ever serves as a soldier, at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit? Or who tends a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

Do I speak these things as a man? Or does not the law, also, say the same?

For it is written in the law of Moses: You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the grain? Has God a care for oxen?

If others partake of this right over you, should not we rather? But we have not used this right: but we endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of the Christ.

Do you not know that those who are engaged about sacred rites have their living from the temple? and that those who attend upon the altar are partakers with the altar?

For though I preach the gospel, I have no cause for boasting; for a necessity is laid upon me; yes, alas for me, if I preach not the gospel.

What, then, is my reward? That, while I preach, I may make the gospel of Christ to be without charge, in order that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

And to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to those who are under law, as under law, (not being myself under law,) that I might gain those who are under law;

to those who are without law, as without law, (not being myself without law to God, but under law to Christ,) that I might gain those who are without law:

Know you not that all the runners in the race-course run the race, but that one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain the prize.

I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air;

Now, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and that all passed through the sea,

But with the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now these things took place as examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they, also, desired.

No trial has come upon you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tried more than you are able to bear; but he will, with the trial, make a way to escape, so that you be able to bear up under it.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the participation of the blood of the Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the participation of the body of the Christ?

Look at Israel according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers with the altar?

But I say, that the things which the Gen tiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not wish you to be partakers with demons.

You can not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you can not be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

All meats are lawful for me; but all are not profitable; all are lawful, but all do not edify.

But if any one say to you: This is sacrificed to idols; eat not, for the sake of him that pointed it out, and for conscience sake:

conscience, I say, not your own, but that of the other. Why, then, is my liberty judged by the conscience of another?

even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own good, but that of the many, in order that they may be saved.

For a man ought not to vail his head, because he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man:

for the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

Does not nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

But I praise you not in this, which I now mention, that you come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

"When, therefore, you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper;

What, have you not houses in which to eat and drink? or do you despise the church of God, and put those to shame who have nothing to eat? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: That the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was delivered up, took bread;

for he that eats and drinks in an improper manner, eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged;

but being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

and if any one is hungry, let him eat at home, that you come not together for condemnation. But other things I will set in order when I come.

But concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant.

For the body is not one member, but many.

If the foot shall say: Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body, is it, for this reason, no part of the body?

And if the ear shall say: Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, is it, for this reason, no part of the body?

The eye can not say to the hand: I have no need of you; or again, the head to the feet: I have no need of you.

for our comely members have no need. But God has so arranged the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which is deficient,

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of an gels, but have not love, I have become as sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver up my body to be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love boasts not; is not vain,

does nothing unbecoming, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil,

rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

For he that speaks in an unknown tongue, speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands him: but yet in spirit he speaks mysteries.

If, then, I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian; and he that speaks will be a barbarian to me.

Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit that is given to you, how will he that occupies the place of the unlearned man say Amen, when you give thanks, since he understands not what you say?

For you give thanks well, but the other is not edified.

Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet, in malice, be childlike; but, in understanding, be full-grown men.

In the law it is written: Through men of other tongues and other lips will I speak to this people; and not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord.

Therefore, tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to those who believe not: but prophecy is not for those who believe not, but for those who believe.

If, then, the whole church come together into the same place, and all speak in tongues, and there come in unlearned men, or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?

for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Let your women keep silence in the assemblies; for they ire not permitted to speak; but they must be in subjection, as also says the law.

Wherefore, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

For I am the least of the apostles, and I am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

But, by the grace of God, I am what I am; and his grace, which was bestowed on me, has not been bestowed in vain: but I have labored more abundantly than they all; not I, how ever, but the grace of God which was with me.

But if a resurrection of the dead is impossible, Christ has not been raised.

And if Christ has not been raised, then vain is our preaching, and vain also your faith.

We are, indeed, also found false witnesses of God; for we have testified against God, that he raised the Christ, whom he did not raise, if, indeed, the dead are not raised.

For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised;

and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are yet in your sins.

For else, what shall those do, who are immersed for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why, then, are they immersed for the dead?

If, to speak as a man, I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

Be not deceived: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

Awake, as you should, to soberness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

Thoughtless man! That which you sow is not made alive, unless it die;

and as to that which you sow, you sow not the body that shall be produced, but the naked grain, it may be of wheat, or of some other grain:

All flesh is not the same flesh; but there is one flesh of men, another of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

But that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is animal; and afterward that which is spiritual.

But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

Behold, I declare to you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed

Therefore, my be loved brethren, be firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.