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For ye are dearly boughte. Prayse ye God therfore in yor body & in yor sprete, which are Gods.

As concernynge the thinges wherof ye wrote vnto me, I answere: It is good for a man not to touche a woman.

Withdrawe not yor selues one fro another, excepte it be with the consent of both for a tyme, that ye maye geue youre selues vnto fastinge and prayer, and the come together agayne, lest Sathan tempte you for yor incontynecye.

To them verely yt are vnmaried and to wedowes I saye: It is good for the that they abyde also as I do.

But yf they cannot absteyne, let them mary. For it is better to mary, then to burne.

As for the other, vnto the saye I, not ye LORDE: Yf eny brother haue an vnbeleuynge wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not put hir awaye.

For the vnbeleuynge hussbande is sanctified by the wife, and the vnbeleuynge wife is sanctified by the hussbande: or els were youre children vncleane, but now are they holy.

For what knowest thou O woma, whether thou shalt saue ye ma? Or what knowest thou O man, whether thou shalt saue the woman?

Art thou called a seruaut, care not for it: neuertheles yf thou mayest be fre, vse it rather.

For he that is called in the LORDE beynge a seruaute, is a fre man of the LORDE. Likewyse he that is called beynge fre, is a seruaut of Christ.

I suppose it is good for ye present necessite: for it is good for a man so to be.

& they that vse this worlde, be as though they vsed it not. For the fasshion off this worlde passeth awaye.

But I wolde that ye shulde be without care. He that is syngle, careth for the thinges of the LORDE,how he maye please the LORDE.

But he that is maried, careth for the thinges of the worlde, how he maye please his wife,

and is deuyded. A woman and a virgin that is syngle, careth for the thinges of the LORDE, that she maye be holy both in body & also in sprete. But she that is maried, careth for ye thinges of the worlde, how she maye please hir hussbande.

This I saye for youre profit, not that I wil tangle you in a snare, but for that which is honest and comly vnto you, that ye maye cotynually cleue vnto the LORDE without hynderaunce.

But yf eny man thinke that it is vncomly for his virgin yf she passe the tyme of mariage, and if nede so requyre, let him do what he lyst, he synneth not, let the be coupled in mariage.

But euery man hath not knowlege: for some make yet consciece ouer the Idoll, and eate it as a thinge offred vnto Idols: and so their conscience beynge weake, is defyled.

For yf eny man se the (which hast knowlege) syt at the table in the Idols house, shal not his conscience whyle it is weake, be occasioned to eate of the Idoll offeringes?

And so thorow thy knowlege shal the weake brother perishe, for who Christ dyed.