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The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise the wife also to her husband.

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise the husband also does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each has his own gift from God, one in this way, and another in that.

(but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband is not to divorce his wife.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

and his interests are divided. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

But if anyone thinks that he is acting dishonorably toward his virgin, if she is past her youth and it ought to be so, let him do what he wishes, he is not sinning; let them marry.

But the one who stands firm in his heart, if he is not under constraint, but has authority over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin, he will do well.

So then, both the one who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and the one who does not give her in marriage will do better.

For if someone sees you, the one who has knowledge, dining in an idol's temple, will his conscience, if he is weak, not be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not consume some of the milk of the flock?

No one is to seek his own advantage, but rather that of his neighbor.

Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head.

For a man should not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.

For as the woman originated from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and all things originate from God.

for when you eat, each one takes his own supper first; and one goes hungry while another gets drunk.

For the one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people, but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries.

the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so he will fall on his face and worship God, declaring that God is certainly among you.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.