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One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification.

and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written: "For this reason I will confess to You among the Gentiles,And sing to Your name." 2 Samuel 22:50; Psalms 18:49 ">[fn]

And again he says:"Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people!" Deuteronomy 32:43 ">[fn]

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

that no flesh should glory in His presence.

But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named [fn] among the Gentiles--that a man has his father's wife!

deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. [fn]

I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren?

And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.

Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

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

For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.

But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife.