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Nevertheless, he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but having power over his own will, and hath determined this in his heart to keep his virgin, doth well.

So then he also that giveth in marriage, doth well; but he that giveth not in marriage, doth better.

The wife is bound as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to marry whom she will; only in the Lord.

But she is happier, if she continue as she is, in my judgment; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. And if any one think he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

But if any one love God, he is known by him. I say, as to the eating of things sacrificed to idols,

we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are many gods and many lords) Yet to us there is but one God,

But there is not in all men this knowledge; for some do even until now, with consciousness of the idol, eat it as sacrificed to the idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

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

But take heed, lest by any means this your liberty become a stumbling-block to the weak.

But when ye sin thus against your brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

If others partake of this power over you, do not we rather? Yet we have not used this power: but we suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

But I have used none of these things; nor have I written thus, that it might be done so unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make this my glorying void.

If indeed I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, yet a dispensation is intrusted to me.

To them that are without the law, as without the law, (being not without the law to God, but under the law to Christ) that I might gain them that are without the law.

Know ye not, that they who run in the race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? so run that ye may obtain.

And every one that contendeth, is temperate in all things: and they indeed, to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should become a reprobate.

There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above your ability, but will with the temptation make also a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.