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And again he saith - Be glad ye nations with his people;

And again, - Be giving praise all ye nations unto the Lord, and let all the peoples repeat his praise;

Salute Rufus, the chosen in the Lord; also his and my mother.

Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympus, and all the saints that are with them.

Faithful, is God, through whom ye have been called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Moreover, he that planteth and he that watereth, are one: - howbeit, each one, his own reward, shall receive, - according to his own labour.

On all hands, there is reported to be among you - fornication, and such fornication as this - which, not among the nations, is found , - as that one should have, his father's wife: -

Dare any of you, having, a matter against his brother, sue for judgment before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

With a view to shame you, am I speaking. So, is it possible that there is among you - not so much as one wise man, who shall be able to judge between his brethren, -

God, moreover, hath both raised up, the Lord, and will raise, us, up from among the dead through his power.

Flee fornication! Every sin, whatsoever a man shall commit, is, outside his body, but, he that committeth fornication, bringeth sin into his own body.

But, on account of fornications, let, each man, have, his own wife, and, each woman, have, her own husband:

The wife, over her own body, hath not authority, but the husband, and, in like manner, the husband also, over his own body, hath not authority, but the wife.

Besides, I desire all men to be, even as myself, - but, each one, hath his, personal, gift from God, one, after this manner, and, another, after that.

But, if she should even depart, let her remain unmarried, or, to her husband, be reconciled; and let not, a husband, leave, his wife.

But, he that hath married, is anxious for the things of the world, how may please his wife -

If however anyone considereth it behaving unseemly towards his virginity, if he should be beyond the bloom of life, - and, thus, it ought to come about, what he chooseth, let him do, - he sinneth not: let them marry:

But, he that standeth in his heart, steadfast, having no necessity, but hath authority concerning his own will, and, this, hath determined in his own heart, - to preserve his own virginity, well shall he do.

So that, he that giveth in marriage his own virginity, doeth, well; and, he that giveth it not, shall do, better.

For, if anyone should see theewho hast knowledge, in an idol-temple, reclining, will not, his conscience, being, weak, be built up for the eating of the idol-sacrifices?