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For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou which thou hast not received? But if thou hast received it, why dost thou boast, as if thou hadst not received it?

For I think God hath set forth us the apostles last, as appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

We are fools for Christ's sake; but ye are wise in Christ: we are weak; but ye are strong: ye are honourable; but we are despised.

For if ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for I have begotten you in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

For this cause I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.

For I verily as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already,

with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened; for our passover is slain for us, even Christ:

But not altogether with the lewd persons of this world, or the covetous, or the rapacious, or idolaters, for then ye must go out of the world.

For what have I to do, to judge them also that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within?

All things are lawful for me; but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; yet God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

God forbid. Know ye not, that he who is joined to an harlot is one body? For they two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

And ye are not your own: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God with your body and your spirit, which are God's.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote to me, It is good for a man, not to touch a woman.

Withdraw not from each other, unless it be by consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to prayer, and may come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

But I say this by way of advice, not by way of precept. For I would that all men were even as myself:

But to the unmarried and the widows I say, It is good for them, if they remain even as I.

But if they have not power over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.