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So don't celebrate the festival by being evil and sinful, which is like serving bread made with yeast. Be pure and truthful and celebrate by using bread made without yeast.

Don't you know that we will judge angels? And if that is so, we can surely judge everyday matters.

Some of you say, "We can do anything we want to." But I tell you that not everything is good for us. So I refuse to let anything have power over me.

God paid a great price for you. So use your body to honor God.

So don't refuse sex to each other, unless you agree not to have sex for a little while, in order to spend time in prayer. Then Satan won't be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

So don't try to change what you were when God chose you.

God paid a great price for you. So don't become slaves of anyone else.

So he is pulled in two directions. Unmarried women and women who have never been married worry only about pleasing the Lord, and they keep their bodies and minds pure. But a married woman worries about the things of this world, because she wants to please her husband.

But suppose you are engaged to someone old enough to be married, and you want her so much that all you can think about is getting married. Then go ahead and marry. There is nothing wrong with that.

In fact, people who think they know so much don't know anything at all.

Not everyone knows these things. In fact, many people have grown up with the belief that idols have life in them. So when they eat meat offered to idols, they are bothered by a weak conscience.

You know all this, and so it doesn't bother you to eat in the temple of an idol. But suppose a person with a weak conscience sees you and decides to eat food that has been offered to idols.

So if I hurt one of the Lord's followers by what I eat, I will never eat meat as long as I live.

No, he wasn't! He was talking about us. This was written in the Scriptures so that all who plow and all who grind the grain will look forward to sharing in the harvest.

When we told the message to you, it was like planting spiritual seed. So we have the right to accept material things as our harvest from you.

I am not anyone's slave. But I have become a slave to everyone, so that I can win as many people as possible.

You know that many runners enter a race, and only one of them wins the prize. So run to win!

I keep my body under control and make it my slave, so I won't lose out after telling the good news to others.

But most of them did not please God. So they died, and their bodies were scattered all over the desert.

They worshiped idols, just as the Scriptures say, "The people sat down to eat and drink. Then they got up to dance around." So don't worship idols.