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For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him that hath so wrought this thing,

I say [this] to move you to shame. Is it so, that there cannot be [found] among you one wise man, who shall be able to decide between his brethren,

Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches.

But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin [daughter], if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.

So then both he that giveth his own virgin [daughter] in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Even so did the Lord ordain that they which proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.

But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case: for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run, that ye may attain.

I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:

For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God.

But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air.

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no [kind] is without signification.

So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.

the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.