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Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

I say this to move you to shame. What, can't there be one wise man among you who will be able to decide between his brothers;

Now God 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.

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

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

The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

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

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.

But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, will do well.

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage will do better.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor's good.

Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

For in your eating each one takes his own supper before others. One is hungry, and another is drunken.