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So then, let us be keeping the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of baseness and wickedness, - but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

But, now, I have written unto you not to be mixing yourselves up, - if anyone named a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one as this, not so much, as to be eating together,

With a view to shame you, am I speaking. So, is it possible that there is among you - not so much as one wise man, who shall be able to judge between his brethren, -

If not - as the Lord hath distributed - unto each one, as God hath called, each one, so, let him be walking; - and, so, in all the assemblies, I ordain.

I consider this, then, to be, good, in the circumstances, by reason of the existing distress, - that it is, good for a man, so, to be:

So that, he that giveth in marriage his own virginity, doeth, well; and, he that giveth it not, shall do, better.

But, happier, is she, if, so, she remain, - in my judgment; for I think, I also, have the Spirit of God.

For, if indeed there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or upon earth, - as indeed there are gods many and lords many,

I, however, have not used any of these things; and have not written these things, in order that, so it should be done, in my case; for it were, good for me, rather to die than - - my boast, shall, no man, make void!

Know ye not that, they who, in a racecourse, run, all, indeed, run, - but, one, receiveth the prize? So, be running, that ye may lay hold.

I, therefore, so, am running, as, not uncertainly, so, am boxing, as not thrashing air;

So that, he that thinketh he is standing, let him take heed lest he fall.

For, just as the woman is of the man, so, also the man, is through means of the woman; - but, all things, are of God.

So that, whosoever may be eating the loaf, or drinking the cup of the Lord, in an unworthy manner, shall be responsible for the body and blood of the Lord.

But let a man be proving himself, - and, so, of the loaf, let him eat, and, of the cup, let him drink;

So then, my brethren, - when ye come together for the eating, unto one another, be giving welcome: -

For, just as, the body, is one, and yet hath many members, but, all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so, also, the Christ; -

And, though I have the gift of prophesying, and know all sacred secrets, and all knowledge, - and though I have all faith, so as to be removing mountains, and have not, love, I am, nothing;

So, also, ye, through means of the tongue, except ye give intelligible discourse, how shall it be known what is being spoken? for ye will be speaking, to the air.

There may happen to be so many kinds of languages in the world, and, not one, unspoken: -