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

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

God [is] faithful, by whom ye were called to the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

That no flesh should glory in his presence.

But God hath revealed [them] to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God.

Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labor.

It is reported commonly [that there is] lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that will be able to judge between his brethren?

And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

Flee lewdness. Every sin that a man doeth, is without the body; but he that committeth lewdness, sinneth against his own body.

Nevertheless, [to avoid] lewdness, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

For I would that all men were as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

But if she shall depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husband put away [his] wife.

But he that is married, is anxious for the things that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife.

But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself uncomely towards his virgin, if she hath passed the flower of [her] age, and need so requireth, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

Nevertheless, he that standeth steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

Who goeth a warfare at any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of its fruit? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

Or saith he [this] altogether for our sakes? for our sakes, no doubt, [this] is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

Let no man seek his own, but every man another's [wealth].