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And let the man render to his wife the kindness which is due; and so also the woman to her husband.

The woman is not the sovereign over her body, but her husband: so also the man is not the sovereign over his body, but the wife.

For I would that all men might be like me in purity. But every man is endowed with his gift of God; one thus, and another so.

Every one, however, as the Lord hath distributed to him, and every one as God hath called him, so let him walk. And also thus I enjoin upon all the churches.

And this I say, my Brethren, that the time to come is short; so that they who have wives, should be as if they had none;

37 But he who hath firmly determined in his own mind, and nothing compelleth him, and he can act his own pleasure, and he so judgeth in his heart, that he keep his maiden [fn] , he doeth commendably.

But she is happier, in my opinion, if she remain so: and I think also, that I have the Spirit of God.

And if I have not been a legate to others, yet I have been so to you; and ye are the seal of my legateship.

But I have used none of these things: and I write not, that it may be so done to me; for it would be better for me to actually die, than that any one should make void my glorying.

Know ye not that they who run in the stadium, run all of them; yet it is one who gaineth the victory. Run ye, so as to attain.

I therefore so run, not as for something unknown; and I so struggle, not as struggling against air;

As therefore that bread is one, so we are all one body; for we all take to ourselves from that one bread.

12 For as the woman [fn] from the man, so the man is by the woman; and every thing is from God.

25 So, after they had supped, he gave also the cup, and said: " This cup is the new testament in my blood: thus do ye, as often as ye drink [fn] , in remembrance of me."

For as the body is one, and in it are many members; and all those members of the body, though many, are one body; so also is the Messiah.

so that, when one member is in pain, they will all sympathize; and if one member is exalted, all the members will be exalted.

2 And if there should be in me [fn] prophecy, and I should understand all the mysteries, and every science; and if there should be in me all faith, so that I could move mountains, and love should not be in me, I should be nothing.

So likewise if ye utter a discourse in a tongue, and there is no interpretation given, how will it be known what ye have said? Ye will have been as if ye spoke into the air.

So also ye, since ye are emulous of the gifts of the Spirit for the edification of the church, seek ye to excel.

In the law it is written, With a foreign speech, and in another tongue, will I speak with this people; and even so also they will not hearken to me, saith the Lord.