For I have been informed about you, my brothers, by Chloe's people, that there are wranglings among you.

For God unveiled them to us through His Spirit, for the Spirit by searching discovers everything, even the deepest truths about God.

Your ground for boasting about such a case is not good. Are you not aware that a little yeast will change the whole lump of dough?

Now I take up the matters about which you wrote me. It may be good thing for a man to remain unmarried;

To the rest of the people I myself would say -- though the Lord Himself has said nothing about it -- if a Christian has a wife that is not a believer and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her;

About unmarried women I have no command from the Lord, but I will give you my opinion as of one who is trustworthy, since I have had mercy shown me by the Lord.

I want you to be free from worldly worries. An unmarried man is concerned about the affairs of the Lord.

A married man is concerned about the affairs of the world, and how he can please his wife, and so his devotion is divided.

An unmarried woman or a girl is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, so as to be consecrated in body and spirit, but a married woman is concerned about the affairs of the world, and how she can please her husband.

Now about the foods that have been sacrificed to idols: We know that every one of us has some knowledge of the matter. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

It cannot be that we have no right to take a Christian wife about with us, can it, as well as the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers, and Cephas?

For in the law of Moses it is written, "You must not muzzle an ox that is treading out your grain." Is it that God is concerned about oxen only?

Do you not know that those who do the work about the temple get their living from the temple, and those who constantly attend on the altar share its offerings?

I am speaking to sensible men; decide for yourselves about what I say.

As a rule eat anything that is sold in the meat market without raising any question about it for conscience' sake,

But if anyone is inclined to be contentious about it, I for my part prescribe no other practice than this, and neither do the churches of God.

About spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be without information.

If they want to find out about something, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

and we are found guilty of lying about God, for we have testified that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if indeed the dead are never raised.

I protest, by the boasting which I do about you, my brothers, through our union with Christ Jesus our Lord, I myself run the risk of dying every single day!

Now about the contribution for God's people, I want you to do as I directed the churches of Galatia to do.