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

Greet Philologus and Julias, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them.

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

so that no flesh might glory in His presence.

But God revealed them to us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

So he planting and he watering are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Everywhere it is heard that fornication is among you, and such fornication which is not named among the heathen, so as for one to have his father's wife.

For I speak shame to you. So, is there not a wise one among you, not even one who will be able to give judgment on his brother in your midst?

And God both raised up the Lord, and He will raise us up through His power.

Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may do is outside the body, but he doing fornication sins against his own body.

but because of fornication, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.

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

But I desire all men also to be as myself. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, and one that way.

but if indeed she is separated, remain unmarried, or be reconciled to the husband; and a husband not to leave his wife.

But if anyone thinks it behaving indecently toward his virgin (if she is beyond her prime, and so it ought to be), let him do what he desires; he does not sin; let them marry.

But he who stands firm in heart, not having necessity, but has authority as to his own will, and has judged this in his heart, to keep his virginity; he does well.

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

Every man praying or prophesying, having anything down over his head shames his head.

For each one takes his own supper first in the eating; and one is hungry, and another drunken.

And so the secrets of his heart become revealed; and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, declaring that God is truly among you.