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Because you are still worldly: for as long as there is among you envying and strife and divisions, are you not worldly and still following after the material things?

Every man''s work shall be plainly seen: for the light of day shall expose it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall test every man''s work and show of what sort it is.

But as for me, it is of little importance that I am judged by you or by any one else: because I do not judge myself.

Now therefore you are already at fault because you go to court one with another. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather let yourselves be defrauded?

For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, because they belong to God.

Nevertheless, because of the danger of immorality, let every man cling to his own wife, and let every woman cling to her own husband.

Therefore do not deprive one another except when both of you consent to do so, especially at the time when you devote yourselves to fasting and prayer; and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your physical passion.

If any man thinks that he is shamed by the behavior of his virgin daughter, because she has passed the marriage age, and he has not given her in marriage, and that he should give her, let him give her in marriage and he does not sin. Let her be married.

No. It is known that he said it for our sakes and it was written for our sakes because the ploughman must plough in hope, and he who threshes, threshes in hope of the crop.

Because I am free from all these things, I have served all men that I may gain many.

To those who are without law, I became like one who is without law, though I am not lawless before God because I am under the law of Christ, that I might win them who are without law.

For a man indeed ought not cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

For if the foot should say, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; is it therefore not a member of the body?

And if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; is it therefore not a member of the body?

For I am the least of the apostles, and I am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

And we are also found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ when he had not raised him.

For I do not want to see you now just as a wayfarer; because I trust to tarry for a time with you, if my LORD permit me.

When I, therefore, was considering this, did I consider it lightly or are the things which I am considering wholly worldly? Because they should have been either yes, yes, or no, no.

Moreover I testify to God concerning myself, that it was because I wanted to spare you, that I did not come to Corinth.

I could not rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; hence I took leave of them, and left for Mac-e-do''ni-a.