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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?

Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods, but God will destroy both this and these. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Or do you not know that he being joined to a harlot is one body? For He says, "The two shall be into one flesh." Gen. 2:24

But concerning what you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman;

Do not deprive one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may be free for fasting and prayer. And come together again on the same place , that Satan may not tempt you through your incontinence.

But I say to the unmarried men, and to the widows, it is good for them if they also remain as I am .

But if they do not have self control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to be inflamed.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the husband; else, then, your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

For what do you know, wife, whether you will save the husband? Or what do you know, husband, whether you will save the wife?

For the one called while a slave in the Lord is a freed man of the Lord. And likewise, the one called while a free man is a slave of Christ.

Then I think this to be good, because of the present necessity: that it is good for a man to be thus.

But I say this, brothers, that the time has been cut short. For the rest is, that even the ones having wives should be as not having,

and those using this world as not abusing it ; for the mode of this world is passing away.

But I desire you to be without care. The unmarried one cares for the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord;

but the one marrying cares for the things of the world, how to please the wife.

The wife and the virgin are different. The unmarried one cares for the things of the Lord, that she be holy in both body and spirit. But the married one cares for the things of the world, how to please the husband.

And I say this for your advantage, not that I put a snare before you, but for the fitting thing, and waiting on the Lord without distraction.

A wife is bound by law for as long a time as her husband lives; but if her husband sleeps, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

For even if some are called gods, either in the heavens or on the earth; (even as there are many gods, and many lords);

but to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we by Him.