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For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

For how do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you shall save your wife?

Were you called being a slave? Do not care for it: no, even if you can become free, use [it] rather.

For he that was called in the Lord being a slave, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he that was called being free, is Christ's slave.

I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is on us, [namely,] that it is good for a man to be as he is.

and those that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the fashion of this world passes away.

But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

and is divided. [So] also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare on you, but for that which is seemly, and that you may attend on the Lord without distraction.

A wife is bound for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wants; only in the Lord.

For though there are those that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are many gods, and many lords;

For if a man sees you who has knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

For through your knowledge he that is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

Therefore, if meat causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I do not cause my brother to stumble.

If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of my apostleship are you in the Lord.

For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God cares,

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written: because he that plows ought to plow in hope, and he that threshes, [to thresh] in hope of partaking.

But I have used none of these things: and I do not write these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it was] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid on me; for woe is to me, if I do not preach the gospel.