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

But concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give knowledge, as one having obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

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 she is happier if she may so remain, according to my opinion: but I realize that I truly have the Spirit of God.

But concerning things offered to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but divine love builds up.

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

If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

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.

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 do this willingly, I have a reward: but if unwillingly, I have been intrusted with a dispensation.

But these things happened unto them as examples; and were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have descended.

Therefore the woman ought to have authority on her head, on account of the angels.

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

If any one seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

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,

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.

Then he was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once, of whom the more remain unto this day, but some have fallen asleep.

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.

Then indeed those having fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

For, he has subordinated all things beneath his feet. But when he may say, that all things have been subordinated, it is evident that the One having subordinated all things to him is excepted.

I protest by your rejoicing, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

If after the manner of men I have fought with the wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak to your shame.

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we must also bear the image of the heavenly.

But concerning brother Apollos, I entreated him much, that he may come to you with the brethren: but it was not altogether his will that he may come now; but he will come when he may have opportunity.

But I exhort you, brethren; (know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruit of Achaia, and they have set themselves to minister unto the saints),

But I rejoice over the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: because they have supplied your deficiency:

who delivered us from so great a death, and will deliver: in whom he have hope that he will also yet deliver;

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and purity of God, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have sojourned in the world, and especially towards you.

as you have also known us in part, because we are your glorying, as you ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

And in this confidence I wished to come unto you sooner, that you may have a second grace;

And I wrote this same thing, in order that, having come, I may not have grief over those from whom it behooves me to rejoice; and having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For out of much tribulation and anguish of heart, I wrote to you through many tears; not in order that you may be grieved, but that you may know the divine love which I have unto you exceedingly.

But to whom you forgive anything, I do also: for indeed whatsoever I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is for your sakes in the face of Christ;

Do we again begin to commend ourselves? or whether have we need of commendatory letters to you or from you, as some do?

But we have such confidence through Christ towards God,

Therefore having this ministry, as we have obtained mercy, we faint not;

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, in order that the excellency of the power, may be of God, and not of us;

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle may be taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

Therefore knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but we have been made manifest unto God; and I hope that we have indeed been made manifest in your consciences.

We are not commending ourselves to you, but giving you occasion of boasting in our behalf, in order that you may have response to those who glory in appearance, and not in heart.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we have our right minds, it is for you.

So that we from now know no man after the flesh: if indeed we have known Christ after the flesh, but we now know him no more.

So if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, they have become new.

But working together we indeed intreat you not to have received the grace of God in vain:

Receive us: we have injured no one, we have corrupted no one, we have defrauded no one.

I do not speak for castigation: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die with you and to live with you.

My boldness to you is great, my rejoicing over you is much: I have been filled with consolation, I superabound with joy in all our tribulation.

For behold, how great enthusiasm, yes, how great apology, yes, how great clearing up, yes, how great fear, yes, how great longing, yes, how great zeal, yes, how great avenging, this same godly sorrow did work in you! In everything you have established yourselves to be pure in the matter.

Therefore we have been comforted. But we rejoiced the more exceedingly in our consolation over the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all:

because if I have gloried with him in anything over you, I wag not made ashamed; but as I spoke all things to you in truth, so our rejoicing over Titus was true.

I rejoice because in everything I have confidence in you.

For if there is first a willing mind, it is acceptable according to what one may have, and not according to what he has not.

And we sent our brother along with him to them, whom we have tried, being frequently zealous in many things, but now much more zealous, with great confidence towards you.

For not as not reaching unto you do we stretch ourselves, for we have advanced in the gospel of Christ even unto you:

For if indeed one coming preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or you receive another spirit, which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not receive, well do you bear with him.

I have become a fool: you did compel me. For I ought to be commended by you: for I am not inferior to the very chief of the apostles, if indeed I am nothing.

lest, I again having come, my God will humble me before you, and I will mourn over many of those having previously committed sins, and not having repented over the uncleanness and the fornication and debauchery which they have done.

I have told you beforehand, and I am speaking to you in advance, as being present the second time, even now absent, that, if I may come to you again, I will not spare those who have previously sinned, and all the rest;

But indeed if we, or an angel from heaven, may preach unto you any other gospel except that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

As we have before said, and now again I tell you, If any one preaches to you a gospel except that which you have received, let him be accursed.

For you have heard of my life formerly in Judaism, that I was persecuting the church of God exceedingly, and destroying it:

but on account of the false brethren having crept in, who came in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they shall bring us into bondage:

knowing that a man is not justified by works of law, but through the faith of Christ Jesus, and we have believed into Christ Jesus, in order that we may be justified by faith of Christ, and not by works of law, because by works of law no flesh shall be justified.

For if I again build the things which I have destroyed, I constitute myself a transgressor.

Have you suffered so many things in vain? if indeed in vain.

For so many as are of works of law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who does not abide in all things which have been written in the book of the law, to do the same.

Then was the law against the promises of God? it could not be so. For if the law was given being able to create life, truly justification would have been by law:

for so many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

You have been divorced from Christ, whosoever are justified by law: you have fallen from grace.

I have confidence in reference to you in the Lord, that you shall be none otherwise minded: but the one troubling you shall bear the judgment, whosoever he may be.

But those belonging to Christ Jesus have crucified carnality with the passions and lusts.

But let each one prove his own work, and then he shall have rejoicing to himself alone, and not to another;

Then therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.

You see with how large letters I have written unto you with my own hand.

in whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of transgressions, according to the riches of his grace,

created life in us in Christ, who were dead in trespasses, by grace you have been saved,

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

But now you are in Christ Jesus, who being at one time far off have been made nigh by the blood of Christ.

because through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

who being past feeling have given themselves up to debauchery, unto the working of all impurity with greediness.

if indeed ye have heard him, and been taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus:

Let the one stealing steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his own hands doing that which is good, that he may have to give to the one having need.

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather indeed convict them.

as it is righteous for me to think in behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, that you are all my fellow-partakers of the grace.

But I wish you, brethren, to know that the affairs appertaining to me have turned out rather unto the promotion of the gospel.

So, my beloved brethren, as you have always harkened, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

For I have no one like-minded, who will nobly remember the things concerning you;

For he was indeed nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not only him, but me also, in order that I may not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Then receive him in the Lord with all joy, and have such in honor:

even though also having confidence in the flesh. If any other one seems to have confidence in the flesh, I the more:

Not that I already received it, or have already been made perfect: but I persevere, if I may receive that for which I have indeed been received by Christ Jesus.