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BUT these things, my brethren, for your sakes I have applied to the person of myself and of Apolo, that through us you may learn not to think of us beyond what is written; and that one above his neighbour may not be exalted on account of any thing.

For who distinguisheth thee ? Or, what hast thou which thou hast not received ? And if thou hast received, why dost thou boast as if thou hadst not received ?

We are fools for the sake of the Meshiha, but we are wise in the Meshiha; we are the weak, but you are the mighty; you are glorified, and we abased.

13 they maltreat us, and we pray for them; as the refuse of the world are we made and the execration [fn] of all men until now.

For if you have ten thousand teachers in the Meshiha, yet not many fathers; for in Jeshu Meshiha I have begotten you through the gospel.

For the kingdom of Aloha is not in word, but in power.

and you deliver this (man) to Satana for the destruction of his body, that in spirit he may be saved in the day of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.

Purge from you the old leaven, that you may be a new mass; so that you may be (as) unleavened bread. For our Pascha is the Meshiha, who hath been slain for us.

For what had I to judge those who are without? But you judge those who are within;

Now, therefore, you make yourselves guilty while you have litigation one with another. For why do you not bear injury ? and why do you not suffer fraud ?

ALL (food) is lawful to me, but all is not expedient for me. All is lawful to me, but over me no one shall have power.

Food is for the belly, and the belly for food; but Aloha will abolish them both. But the body was not for fornication, but for our Lord, and our Lord for the body.

Know you not that whosoever attacheth to a harlot is one body? For it is said, The two shall be one body.

Flee from fornication: for every sin which a man committeth is without his body; but he who committeth fornication against his own body sinneth.

for you are bought with the price; therefore glorify Aloha in your body and in your spirit, which are of Aloha.

BUT concerning those (questions) of which you wrote to me, It is well for a man unto a woman not to come nigh;

so also the wife to her husband. For the wife hath not authority over her body, but the husband; so also the man hath not authority over his body, but his wife.

Defraud not then one the other, unless you both agree for a time, that you may humble yourselves by fasting and by prayer; and return again unto the same will, that Satana may not tempt you on account of the desire of your bodies.

For I would that all men were as I am, in chastity. But every man hath the gift given to him from Aloha, this one thus, and the other thus.

But I say to those who have no wives, and to the widows, that it is expedient for them to remain as I do.