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Meates are ordeyned for the belly and the belly for meates: but God shall destroy bothe it and them. Let not the body be applied vnto fornicacion but vnto the Lorde and the Lorde vnto the body.

Do ye not vnderstonde that he which coupleth him selfe with an harlot is become one body? For two (saith he) shalbe one flesshe.

For ye are dearly bought. Therfore glorifie ye God in youre bodyes and in youre spretes for they are goddes.

As concerninge the thinges wherof ye wrote vnto me: it is good for a ma not to touche a woman.

Withdrawe not youre selves one from another excepte it be with consent for a tyme for to geve youre selves to fastynge and prayer. And afterwarde come agayne to the same thynge lest Satan tempt you for youre incontinencye.

For I wolde that all men were as I my selfe am: but every man hath his proper gyfte of God one after this maner another after that.

I saye vnto the vnmaried men and widdowes: it is good for them yf they abyde eve as I do.

But and yf they canot abstayne let them mary. For it is better to mary then to burne.

For ye vnbelevynge husbande is sanctified by the wyfe: and the vnbelevynge wyfe is sanctified by the husbande. Or els were youre chyldren vnclene: but now are they pure.

For how knowest thou o woman whether thou shalt save that man or no? Other how knowest thou o man whether thou shalt save that woman or no?

Arte thou called a servaut? care not for it. Neverthelesse yf thou mayst be fre vse it rather.

For he that is called in the lorde beynge a servaunt is the lordes freman. Lykwyse he that is called beynge fre is Christes servaut.

I suppose that it is good for the present necessite. For it is good for a ma so to be.

and they yt vse this worlde be as though they vsed it not. For the fassion of this worlde goeth awaye.

I wolde have you without care: the single man careth for the thinges of the lorde how he maye please the lorde.

But he that hath maried careth for the thinges of the worlde howe he maye please his wyfe.

There is differece bitwene a virgin and a wyfe. The single woman careth for the thinges of the lorde that she maye be pure both in body and also in sprete But she that is maryed careth for the thinges of the worlde how she maye please her husband.

This speake I for youre proffit not to tangle you in a snare: but for that which is honest and comly vnto you and that ye maye quyetly cleave vnto the lorde wt out separacion.

If eny man thinke that it is vncomly for his virgin if she passe the tyme of mariage ad if so nede requyre let him do what he listeth he synneth not: let the be coupled in mariage.

But every man hath not knowledge. For some suppose that ther is an ydoll vntyll this houre and eate as of a thinge offered vnto ye ydole and so their consciences beynge yet weake are defyled.