Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats: but God will destroy both this and them. The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? then taking the members of Christ, shall I make them the members of a harlot? it could not be so.

Do you not know that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? for it says, They two shall be one flesh.

Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? and you are not your own;

But concerning those things about which you wrote to me: That it is good for a man not to receive a wife:

The wife has not the authority over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not the authority over his own body, but the wife.

Do not defraud one another, unless it may be with consent for a time, that you may give attention to prayer, and again come together, in order that Satan may not tempt you on account of your incontinency.

But I speak this according to knowledge, not according to commandment.

but if they do not contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

But I proclaim to those who have married, not I, but the Lord, That a wife shall not depart from her husband

(but if indeed she may depart, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled unto her husband); and that the husband shall not send away the wife.

But I say to the rest, not the Lord, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is willing to live with him, let him not send her away.

And if any wife has an unbelieving husband, and he is willing to live with her, let her not send away her husband.

But if the unbeliever departs, let him or her depart; the brother or the sister has not been enslaved in such things. God has called you in peace.

If not as the Lord has imparted to each one, and as God has called each one, so let him or her walk. And thus I command in all the churches.

Is one called having been circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: has one been called in uncircumcision? let him not get circumcised.

Have you been called being a slave? let it not be a care to you: but if indeed you are able to become free, use it in preference.

You have been bought with a price; be not the slaves of men.

Have you been given to a wife? do not seek separation; have you been separated from a wife? do not seek a wife.

But if, indeed you may marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin may marry, she has not sinned; but such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

But I say this, brethren; that the time is at hand, that moreover indeed those having wives may be as those not having;

and those weeping, as those not weeping; and those rejoicing, as those not rejoicing; and those buying, as those not possessing;

and those using the world, as those not using it thoroughly: for the fashion of this world is passing away.

I speak this for the profit of you yourselves; not that I may cast a burden upon you, but for that which is pleasing and acceptable to the Lord without perturbation.

But if any one considers that he is acting indiscreetly towards his virgin, if she may be marriageable, and thus it ought so to be, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry.

So indeed he that marries his own virgin does well; and he that marries her not will do better.

If any one seems to know anything, yet he knows not as it behooves him to know;

But there is not knowledge in all people: but some, with the conscience of the idol even until now, eat as if it was sacrificed to the idol; and their conscience being weak is polluted.

But meat will not commend us to God; neither if we eat are we the better; nor if we eat not are we the worse.

For if any one may see you having knowledge sitting at the table in the idol temple, will not the conscience of him, being weak, be encouraged to eat things sacrificed to the idols?

If indeed meat causes my brother to stumble, I never eat any more meat, in order that I may not lay a stumblingblock in the way of my brother.

Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen the Lord Jesus? are you not my work in the Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, but I am to you at least: for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Have we not a right to eat and drink?

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

Have I and Barnabas alone not the right to forbear working?

Whoever goes to war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and does not eat the fruit of it? or who shepherdizes a flock, and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

Whether do I speak these things according to a man? or does not the law indeed say these things?

For in the law of Moses it has been written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that plows. Is there a care to God for oxen,

If others partake of your bounty, shall not we the more? But we have not used this privilege, but we bear all things, in order that we may not give a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

Do you not know that those working in the sacrifices eat those things of the temple; and those serving the altar partake of the altar?

But I have used none of these things. But I have not written these things that it may be so in me: for it is good for me rather to die than that any one shall make void my boasting.

For if I preach the gospel, there is no boasting to me; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I may not preach the gospel.

Then what is my reward? that preaching the gospel, I may render the gospel free from charge, in order that I may not use my right in the gospel.

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I may gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, not myself being under law, that I may gain those under the law;

to those without law, I became as without law, not being without the law of God, but under the law of Christ, that I may gain those without law.

Do you not know that those running in the stadium, indeed all run, and one receives the prize? So run, that you may receive it.

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air:

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

But with many of them God is not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

And these became our examples, in order that we may not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

No temptation has overtaken you, except that which is human: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation, He will also make a way of escape, in order that you may be able to bear it.

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

See Israel after the flesh: are not all eating the sacrifices communicants of the altar?

But those things which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. But I do not wish you to be the communicants of demons.

You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you are not able to partake of the table of the Lord, and the table of demons.

All things are lawful; but all things are not profitable. All things are lawful; but all things do not edify.

But if any one may say to you; This is offered to an idol, eat not, on account of him who gave the information, and his conscience.

But I say the conscience not of himself, but of the other one. For why is my liberty judged by the conscience of another?

as I also please all in all things, seeking not my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

If a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it is a disgrace for a woman to be shorn or shaven; let her be covered.

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

For the man is not from the woman; but the woman is from the man;

for man indeed was not created on account of the woman; but the woman on account of the man.

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

And proclaiming this, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

Therefore you coming together, it is not to eat the Lord's supper:

For have you not houses in which to eat and to drink? or do you cast contempt on the church of God, and shame those not having? What do I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

For I received this from the Lord, which I have also delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the night in which he was betrayed, took bread,

for the one eating and drinking, net discerning the body, eats and drinks condemnation to himself.

Therefore many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

But if we judged ourselves, we would not be judged:

But being judged, by the Lord we are chastised, in order that we may not be condemned along with the world.

If one is hungry let him eat at home; in order that you may not come together unto condemnation. But I will set in order the remaining things when I may come.

If I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not divine love, I have become a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And if I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not divine love, I am nothing.

And if I give all my goods to feed the poor, and if I may give my body that I shall be burnt, and have not divine love, I am profited as to nothing.

Divine love suffers long; divine love is kind; divine love envies not; does not make a display of itself, is not puffed up,

does not behave itself uncomely, seeks not its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but it rejoices in the truth;

For the one speaking with a tongue speaks not to men, but to God; for no one hears him; but he speaks mysteries in the spirit:

Nevertheless things without life, giving forth a voice, whether pipe or harp, if it may not give a distinction to the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped, or what is harped?

if then I do not understand the power of the voice, I will be a barbarian to the one speaking, and the one speaking will be a barbarian to me.

For if I pray with a tongue, my spirit is praying, but my mind is not fruitful.

Since if you may bless with the spirit, how will one occupying the place of the unlearned say Amen to your blessing? since he does not know what you are saying.

For you indeed bless beautifully, but the other is not edified.

Brethren, be not children in intellect: but be infants in evil, but be perfect in intellect.

It has been written in the law; I will speak to this people with other tongues and with the lips of others; and thus they will not hearken unto me, says the Lord.

So tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelievers: and prophecy is not for the unbelievers, but for the believers.

Then if the whole church may come together, and all may speak with tongues, and the unlearned or unbelievers may come in, will they not say that you are gone mad?

for he is not a God of confusion, but of peace. So in all the churches of the saints,

let the women be silent in the churches: for it is not permitted to them to talk; but let them be subordinate, as the law also says.

So, my brethren, be zealous to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues;

For I am the least of the apostles, who 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 was not vain toward me; but I have labored more abundantly than they all: and not I, but the grace of God with me.

but if there is no resurrection of the dead, Christ is not risen:

but if Christ is not risen, then indeed is our preaching vain, and your faith is vain.

And we are indeed found false witnesses of God; because we testified according to God that he raised Christ: whom he did not raise, if then the dead rise not.

But if the dead rise not, neither is Christ risen.

But if Christ is not risen, your faith is vain; you are yet in your sins.