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For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God with your body.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote: "It is good for a man not to touch a woman."

Do not defraud one another, except perhaps by agreement, for a time, in order that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and then you should be together again, lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self control.

Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am.

But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother, since otherwise your children are unclean, but now 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 the one who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord's freedperson. Likewise the one who is called while free is a slave of Christ.

Therefore, I consider this to be good because of the impending distress, that it is good for a man to be thus.

and those who make use of the world as if they do not make full use of it. For the present form of this world is passing away.

But I want you to be free from care. The unmarried person cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

But the one who is married cares for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

and he is divided. And the unmarried woman or the virgin cares for the things of the Lord, in order that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the married woman cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Now I am saying this for your own benefit, not that I may put a restriction on you, but to promote appropriate and devoted service to the Lord without distraction.

A wife is bound for as long a time as her husband lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry whomever she wishes, only in the Lord.

For even if after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many gods and many lords,

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

But food does not bring us close to God. For neither if we eat do we have more, nor if we do not eat do we lack.

But watch out lest somehow this right of yours becomes a cause for stumbling to the weak.

For if someone should see you who has knowledge reclining for a meal in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, because it is weak, be strengthened so that he eats the food sacrificed to idols?