The husband must give the wife her conjugal dues, and the wife in the same way must give her husband his;

the wife cannot do as she pleases with her body ??her husband has power, and in the same way the husband cannot do as he pleases with his body ??his wife has power.

But what I have just said is by way of concession, not command.

I would like all men to be as I am. However, everyone is endowed by God in his own way; he has a gift for the one life or the other.

By sinning against the brotherhood in this way and wounding their weaker consciences, you are sinning against Christ.

If others share this right over you, why not we all the more? We did not avail ourselves of it, you say? No, we do not mind any privations if we can only avoid putting any obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

It all happened to them by way of warning for others, and it was written down for the purpose of instructing us whose lot has been cast in the closing hours of the world.

No temptation has waylaid you that is beyond man's power; trust God, he will never let you be tempted beyond what you can stand, but when temptation comes, he will provide the way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.

Put no stumbling-block in the way of Jews or Greeks or the church of God.

In the same way he took the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup means the new covenant ratified by my blood; as often as you drink it, do it in memory of me.'

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I argued like a child; now that I am a man, I am done with childish ways.