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For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am.

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

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

For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God.

For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ.

I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is.

and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.

I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"—

yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?

And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.

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

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?

For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned?

Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.

But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting.